Ongkara

(Lay your sleeping head my love
Human on my faithless arms)
Time and fevers burn away
beauty from thoughtful child
and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral
But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie
Mortal, guilty but to me
The entirely beautiful
So let the winds of dawn that blow
Softly round your dreaming head
Such a day of welcome show
Eye and knocking hearth may bless
Find our mortal world enough
Noons of dryness find you fed