To Grace
(On the Morning of her Christening, April 7th, 1916)The powerful words that from my heart
Alive and throbbing leap and sing
Shall bind the dragon's jaws apart
Or bring you back a vanished spring;
They shall unseal and seal again
The fount of wisdom's awful flow,
So this one guerdon they shall gain
That your wild beauty still they show.
The strength of dragons in your hair,
In your young soul we still surprise
But never word shall speak or sing
Inadequate music where above
Your burning heart now spreads its wing
In the wild bearty of your Love.