“IF LOVE WERE ALL.” (PRISONER OF ZENDA.)

“If love were all!” Can love be less than all Here in the world the God of Love hath made? If love were all—and love were unafraid, And knew not death’s corrupting funeral pall! Oh Princess, with thy soul by heavenly call In love’s divinest panoply arrayed, Hath thy soul-sight thy love-sight so betrayed That love from his supremest place should fall? Yet wert thou right. Thy woman’s heart divined The soul of love’s transcendent perfectness: For like a star within a mist confined And burning thro’ love’s soul is righteousness. Thus love is all—tho’, as on Calvary, Renunciation love’s fulfillment be! Edith Neil.