The Broken Wing/Love Omnipotent

​5. Love Omnipotent

O Love, is there aught I should fail to achieve for your sake?Your need would invest my frail hands with invincible powerTo tether the dawn and the darkness, to trample and breakThe mountains like sea-shells, and crush the fair moon like a flower,And drain the wide rivers as dew-drops and pluck from the skiesThe sunbeams like arrows, the stars like proud impotent eyes.
O Love, is there aught I should fear to fulfil at your word?Your will my weak hands with such dauntless delight would endow ​To capture and tame the wild tempest to sing like a bird,And bend the swift lightning to fashion a crown for your brow,Unfurl the sealed triumph of Time like a foot-cloth outspread,And rend the cold silence that conquers the lips of the dead.
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