The Lust of the Eyes

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I care not for my Lady’s soul
  Though I worship before her smile;
  I care not where be my Lady’s goal
  When her beauty shall lose its wile.

  Low sit I down at my Lady’s feet
  Gazing through her wild eyes
  Smiling to think how my love will fleet
  When their starlike beauty dies.

  I care not if my Lady pray
  To our Father which is in Heaven
  But for joy my heart’s quick pulses play
  For to me her love is given.

  Then who shall close my Lady’s eyes
  And who shall fold her hands?
  Will any hearken if she cries
  Up to the unknown lands?

© Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal