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Poems

Chapter 68: THOUGH ALL BETRAY
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A varied collection of lyric and narrative verse that moves between short songs, sonnets, rondels, and longer meditative pieces. Many poems use pastoral and seasonal imagery to celebrate fields, harvest, and the sensory life of the natural world while also acknowledging the hardships and dignity of rural labor. Recurring themes include love, absence, memory, and spiritual longing, treated with formal variety and musical language. The tone alternates between celebratory, elegiac, and reflective, blending vivid description with moral and emotional observation.

THOUGH ALL BETRAY

Dearest, give your love to me,—
I will keep it well,
Cradle it, as does the sea
Hold the shell—
Deep, unseen, and secretly.
Dearest, give your kiss to me,—
I will keep tho’ all assail:
As the temple prayerfully
Holds the Grail.
Altars then my lips shall be!
Dearest, give to me your trust,—
I will not betray....
Hold it, as the beacon must
Hold the ray,
Till the lighthouse stones are dust.