QUIETLY as rosebuds <br /> Talk to thin air, <br />Love came so lightly <br /> I knew not he was there. <br /> <br />Quietly as lovers <br /> Creep at the middle noon, <br />Softly as players tremble <br /> In the tears of a tune; <br /> <br />Quietly as lilies <br /> Their faint vows declare, <br />Came the shy pilgrim: <br /> I knew not he was there. <br /> <br />Quietly as tears fall <br /> On a wild sin, <br />Softly as griefs call <br /> In a violin; <br /> <br />Without hail or tempest, <br /> Blue sword or flame, <br />Love came so lightly <br /> I knew not that he came.<br /><br />John Shaw Neilson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-s-coming-2/
