301. Pater Filio by Robert Bridges
b"R Bridges read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------\\n\\nPater Filio\\nby Robert Bridges (1844 \\u2013 1930)\\n\\nSense with keenest edge unused,\\n Yet unsteel'd by scathing fire;\\nLovely feet as yet unbruised\\n On the ways of dark desire;\\nSweetest hope that lookest smiling\\nO'er the wilderness defiling!\\n\\nWhy such beauty, to be blighted\\n By the swarm of foul destruction?\\nWhy such innocence delighted,\\n When sin stalks to thy seduction?\\nAll the litanies e'er chaunted\\nShall not keep thy faith undaunted.\\n\\nI have pray'd the sainted Morning\\n To unclasp her hands to hold thee;\\nFrom resignful Eve's adorning\\n Stol'n a robe of peace to enfold thee;\\nWith all charms of man's contriving\\nArm'd thee for thy lonely striving.\\n\\nMe too once unthinking Nature,\\n \\u2014Whence Love's timeless mockery took me,\\u2014\\nFashion'd so divine a creature,\\n Yea, and like a beast forsook me.\\nI forgave, but tell the measure\\nOf her crime in thee, my treasure.\\n\\n\\n\\nFirst aired: 26 July 2008\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2008"