Synopsis

TRANSFIGURED Love took the sordid clay And pierced its grossness as with lustral fire^ Fashioned a spirit from the common earthy And crowned him lord and king with tears and mirth: Love took the sordid clay And shaped it to the god of her desire. Then, ere he could resign His white divinity and &11 away From that ineffable, ideal height Whereto he had been lifted by Love's might Ere he could so resign His godhead and return again to day, 1 A Death took the god of Love — Hie god that was but man ashine with gleams From mner fires that Love's own hands supplied — And made him deathless who might else have died : Death took the god of Love Aai throned him in the heaven of her dreams.