Poem by Arthur Davison Ficke

Serenade in Firelight

Sit here where I could touch your hand If that should be my sudden will:
Among the shadows where we wait
I shall not stir.

Sit here where I could feel your lips If they should breathe the faintest sound:
As the slow-moving midnight slips
I ask no speech.

Sit here where I could lay my head Wearily down upon your knees:
I shall sit upright as I watch
The tangled fire.

1. Opus 67
2. Like Him Whose Spirit in the Blaze of Noon
3. Fate, with Devoted and Incessant Care
4. Among Shadows
5. I Am in Love with High Far-Seeing Places

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