Poems (Meynell, 1921)/The Young Neophyte

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THE YOUNG NEOPHYTE

WHO knows what days I answer for to-day?
Giving the bud I give the flower. I bow
This yet unfaded and a faded brow;
Bending these knees and feeble knees, I pray.


Thoughts yet unripe in me I bend one way,
Give one repose to pain I know not now,
One check to joy that comes, I guess not how.
I dedicate my fields when Spring is grey.


O rash! (I smile) to pledge my hidden wheat.
I fold to-day at altars far apart
Hands trembling with what toils? In their retreat


I seal my love to-be, my folded art.
I light the tapers at my head and feet,
And lay the crucifix on this silent heart.