I COULD praise you once with beautiful words ere you came <br />And entered my life with love in a wind of flame. <br />I could lure with a song from afar my bird to its nest, <br />But with pinions drooping together silence is best. <br /> <br /> <br />In the land of beautiful silence the winds are laid, <br />And life grows quietly one in the cloudy shade. <br />I will not waken the passion that sleeps in the heart, <br />For the winds that blew us together may blow us apart. <br /> <br /> <br />Fear not the stillness; for doubt and despair shall cease <br />With the gentle voices guiding us into peace. <br />Our dreams will change as they pass through the gates of gold, <br />And Quiet, the tender shepherd, shall keep the fold.<br /><br />George William Russell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-silence-of-love-3/
