Saturday, 30 August 2008

2B: from "The Heart's Desire is Full of Sleep"

.... true emperors of desire,
True heirs to all regret,
Strangers and pilgrims, still enquire
For what they never get;

And though they cannot see love's face
They tread his former track;
They know him by his empty place,
They know him by their lack.

For I am one who has had much,
But not the heart's desire