Let Love clasp Grief Lyrics

Who trusted love was true indeed, And love Creation's final law

Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw, With ravine, shriek'd against his creed

Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drown'd, Let darkness keep her raven gloss

Ah, sweeter to be drunk with loss, To dance with death, to beat the ground

Old Yew, which graspest at the stones, That name the under-lying dead

Thy fibres net the dreamless head, Thy roots are wrapt about the bones

Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drown'd, Let darkness keep her raven gloss

Ah, sweeter to be drunk with loss, To dance with death, to beat the ground

I held it truth, with him who sings, To one clear harp in divers tones

That men may rise on stepping-stones, Of their dead selves to higher things

Peace; come away: the song of woe, Is after all an earthly song

Peace; come away: we do him wrong, To sing so wildly

Let us go

Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drown'd, Let darkness keep her raven gloss

Ah, sweeter to be drunk with loss, To dance with death, to beat the ground

Strong Son of Life, eternal Love

Whom we, that have not seen thy face

By trust, and trust alone, embrace

Believing where we cannot prove.