Requiescat
Tonight my love is sleeping cold / Where none may see and none shall pass.
You know the bloom, unearthly white,
That none has seen by morning light-
The tender moon, alone, may bare
Its beauty to the secret air.
Who'd venture past its dark retreat
Must kneel, for holy things and sweet,
That blossom, mystically blown,
No man may gather for his own
Nor touch it, lest it droop and fall....
Oh, I am not like that at all!
Tonight my love is sleeping cold / Where none may see and none shall pass.
Here in my heart I am Helen; / I'm Aspasia and Hero, at least.
Oh, mercifullest one of all, / Oh, generous as dear,
With you, my heart is quiet here, / And all my thoughts are cool as rain.