I felt within my heart awake and glow <br />A spirit of Love’s excellence that slept, <br />Then I beheld Love as from afar he stept <br />So joyful that his face I scarce could know. <br />He said: Now think all honour me to show <br />And through each word of his Love’s laughter crept; <br />Then as my lord awhile his splendour kept, <br />Gazing there whence he came, where he would go, <br /> <br />Nuala and Columba did I see <br />Come towards the place where I was lingering, <br />One marvel first, the other following, <br />And, even as retelleth memory, <br />Love said: That one who follows this our Spring <br />Hath Love for name, so like is she to me.<br /><br />Joseph Mary Plunkett<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/nomina-sunt-consequentia-rerum/
