Dante Gabriel Rossetti - The One Hope lyrics

When all desire at last and all regret Go hand in hand to d**h, and all is vain, What shall a**uage the unforgotten pain And teach the unforgetful to forget? Shall Peace be still a sunk stream long unmet,— Or may the soul at once in a green plain Stoop through the spray of some sweet life-fountain And cull the dew-drenched flowering amulet? Ah! when the wan soul in that golden air Between the scriptured petals softly blown Peers breathless for the gift of grace unknown, Ah! let none other written spell soe'er But only the one Hope's one name be there,— Not less nor more, but even that word alone.