If I had known you--oh, if I had known you! <br />In other days when youth and love were strong, <br />I would have raised a temple to enthrone you <br />On some fair pinnacle of cloudless song. <br /> <br />If you had touched me then with your dear laughter, <br />As now its echo smites me in my grief, <br />I would have given my soul to you, and after <br />Lived in my love, grown old in my belief. <br /> <br />If you had loved me,--oh, you would have loved me! <br />Earth would have worshipped us, its seers sublime, <br />My song had been a psalm, and Saints had proved me <br />Prophet and priest, your poet for all time.<br /><br />Wilfrid Scawen Blunt<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if-i-had-known-you/
