Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918.
65. Dream Love
I
To feel thy gentle hand,
As in a dream thy soul to greet
Across wide leagues of land.
Where, amid radiant skies,
Glimmered thy plumes of iris hue,
My Bird of Paradise.
Love first, and after see:
Know thy diviner counterpart
Before I kneel to thee.
Thy angel I may view:
I shall not on thy beauty rest,
But beauty’s self in you.