How shall I sing? the thing I crave <br />To say is speechless as a Lover's trance. <br />How shall I give to thee <br />What even now is all so wholly thine <br />That but by losing thee in me <br />Or me in thee it never can be mine? <br /> <br /> <br />As a sliding wave of sliding sea <br />Before my following hand doth dance <br />Ever and ever onward to the shore, <br />And breaks and is a thousand things at once, <br />And from the moment's multiplicity <br />Takes itself up again into a wave: <br /> <br /> <br />So all I feel and see <br />Breaks to the thousand-fold of Fate and Chance, <br />But from the moment's multiplicity <br />Takes itself up into the thought of thee.<br /><br />Sydney Thompson Dobell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fragment-of-ballad/
