A message from her set his brain aflame. <br />A world of household matters filled her mind, <br />Wherein he saw hypocrisy designed: <br />She treated him as something that is tame, <br />And but at other provocation bites. <br />Familiar was her shoulder in the glass, <br />Through that dark rain: yet it may come to pass <br />That a changed eye finds such familiar sights <br />More keenly tempting than new loveliness. <br />The 'What has been' a moment seemed his own: <br />The splendours, mysteries, dearer because known, <br />Nor less divine: Love's inmost sacredness <br />Called to him, 'Come!'--In his restraining start, <br />Eyes nurtured to be looked at, scarce could see <br />A wave of the great waves of Destiny <br />Convulsed at a checked impulse of the heart.<br /><br />George Meredith<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/modern-love-v-a-message-from-her/
