A Christmas Faggot/Three Sisters

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776939A Christmas Faggot — Three SistersAlfred Gurney

THREE SISTERS.[1]

Three fountains clear as crystal spring
     In one secluded garden-plot;
     In shade and shelter of one cot
Three sister-doves are harbouring.

Adown one pathway hand in hand
     Three Sister-Graces wend their way;
     I shall not soon forget the day
I met with them in fairy land.

They dawned, I know not how or whence:
     A halo circling round the head
     Of each, whereby transfigurèd
They clomb the bill of frankincense.

I know not whence or how, they bloomed:
     Each sweeter than the sweetest rose
     That in the haunted garden grows
Where burns the bush still unconsumed.

And one is like a rising sun
     When dewy Morn unveils her eyes;
     And one is as Minerva wise;
And very lily-like is one.

And all are dear. I seem to see
     The weaving of a three fold cord—
     To hear a softly whispered word,
’Love makes a unity of three.’

  1. See Note D, page 74.