The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse
SwallowsMarjorie L. C. Pickthall (18831922)
O
Here is no place to rest.
Night darkens on the falling foam
And on the fading west.
O little wings, beat home, beat home.
Love may no longer roam.
And Love has crowned the corn,
And we must follow Love’s white feet
Through all the ways of morn.
Through all the silver roads of air
We pass and have no care.
O winds that turn, O stars that guide,
Sweet are the ways that Love hath trod
Through the clear skies that reach to God.
But in the cliff-grass Love builds deep
A place where wandering wings may sleep.