O, Love builds on the azure sea / Isabella Valancy Crawford

from Malcolm's Katie

O, Love builds on the azure sea,
And Love builds on the golden sand;
And Love builds on the rose-wing'd cloud.
And sometimes Love builds on the land.

O, if Love build on sparkling sea —
And if Love build on golden strand —
And if Love build on rosy cloud —
To Love these are the solid land.

O, Love will build his lily walls,
And Love his pearly roof will rear,—
On cloud or land, or mist or sea —
Love's solid land is everywhere!

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Isabella Valancy Crawford

from Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie and other poems, 1884

[Poem is in the public domain worldwide]

Isabella Valancy Crawford (by George J. Dance)