Classic Poem

Love o'er the rose-white alleys
That flower on pale desert sands,
Love through the rose-red valleys
That burgeon in southern lands,
In cities ashine with pleasure
On the edge of a sea-girt clime,
Or mountains whose dim caves treasure
The temples of moon-crowned time,
On errands of joy or duty.
Wherever the ways you tread,
A carpet of ageless beauty
Is my heart for your feet outspread.

Love, whether Life betray you
And the malice of black-winged Fate
Shatter your dream and slay you
With talons of fear and hate,
Or whether yours the story
Of triumph and loneliest fame,
And the stars inscribe your glory
In lyric and legend of flame,
On errands of joy or duty,
Wherever the ways you tread,
A carpet of ageless beauty
Is my heart for your feet outspread.