Poems (Linn)/The Illumined Page
THE ILLUMINED PAGE.
FOND lover, pore above her upturned faceAs you would gaze on some illumined page;Some text revealing faith of a past age,Where on the margin, by an artist's grace,Gleam cherubs' faces, scrolls of blue and goldTwined with fair flowers that shall never fade;Illumined prayers that holy beings prayed,In mouldering monasteries, centuries old.But while you praise the beauty of such artFail not to see the faith that lay behind;Think of the spirits that thus sought to bindGod's grace and glory closer to the heart.So lover, reading love's illumined story,Behind it, own the "All-Love" whence comes love's glory.