Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems

<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_246" id="Page_246">[Pg 246]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>SUMMER DAWN</h2> <div class="cpoem30"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="id0"><span class="dcap">P</span>RAY but one prayer for me 'twixt thy closed lips;<br/></span> <span class="i2">Think but one thought of me up in the stars.<br/></span> <span class="i0">The summer night waneth, the morning light slips,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Faint and grey 'twixt the leaves of the aspen, betwixt the cloud-bars,<br/></span> <span class="i0">That are patiently waiting there for the dawn:<br/></span> <span class="i2">Patient and colourless, though Heaven's gold<br/></span> <span class="i0">Waits to float through them along with the sun.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Far out in the meadows, above the young corn,<br/></span> <span class="i2">The heavy elms wait, and restless and cold<br/></span> <span class="i0">The uneasy wind rises; the roses are dun;<br/></span> <span class="i0">They pray the long gloom through for daylight new born,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Round the lone house in the midst of the corn.<br/></span> <span class="i2">Speak but one word to me over the corn,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Over the tender, bow'd locks of the corn.<br/></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />