WE two have strayed far from the noise of earth, By heath and peak, by foam-distracted beach, By little ancient towns of foreign speech, By woodlands where the swinging birds made mirth, By dusky towns, eyes in the moorland girth Of hills, and in the solitude of each Your lovelier soul has bent itself to teach My soul the lore that follows the New Birth. I think some fragment of our life must make A green oasis in those mountain snows, A sanguine flush across the wild white rose, A bar of opal where the streamlets break, Or in some valley there may bloom, who knows, One little flower created for our sake? |