Oh I love you dearly miss <br />Though you frustrate me so <br />I am full of faith in you <br />As thoughts go to and fro <br /> <br />I so old and you so young <br />Who’d have thought it twice? <br />That fire could learn patience <br />From melting blocks of ice <br /> <br />And though I pull and struggle <br />As you run me round the ring <br />Now I know you mean no harm <br />Only praise for you I sing <br /> <br />And when I feel the sting of whip <br />And bits between my teeth <br />I’ll understand in your firm hand <br />Love looms in veins beneath <br /> <br />You will tame this brutish beast <br />And so grateful will he be <br />When you ride upon his back <br />Such wonders both shall see<br /><br />Dean Meredith<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-taming-of-the-beast/
