Chapter XI: Canticle

In my heart a wizard book
Only love shall ever look
Darling, when thou readest there
Wisely falter and forbear

Ere thou turn'st the pages olden
Deeply writ and deeply folden
Where the legends of lost moons
Lie in chill unchanging runes

Trifle not with charm or spell
Heptagram or pentacle
Leave in silence, long unsaid
All the words that wake the dead

Darling, in my heart withholden
Letters rubrical and golden
Tell the secret of our love and
The philtred spells thereof

There, my memories of thee
Half of all the gramarie are a firm unfading lore

Read but these and read no more!

Shall it profit thee to find
Loves that went with snow and wind?
Leave in silence, long unsaid
All the words that wake the dead