Poem by Richard Watson Gilder

The New Day. Part 4. 16. “Love Is Not Bond to Any Man”

Love is not bond to any man,
⁠     Nor slave of woman, howso fair.
Love knows no architect nor plan,
⁠          She is a lawless wanderer,
⁠          She hath no master over her,
          ⁠And loveth not her worshiper.

But tho' she knoweth law nor plan,—
     ⁠Tho' she is free as light and air,—
Love was a slave since time began.
⁠          Lo, now, behold a wondrous thing:
          ⁠Tho' from stone walls she taketh wing,
          ⁠Love may be led by a silken string.

1. The Celestial Passion. Prelude
2. The New Day. Part 3. 8. “Thy Lover, Love, Would Have Some Nobler Way”
3. The New Day. Part 3. 23. Song (My love grew with the growing night)
4. The Celestial Passion. Part 2. 2. Easter
5. The New Day. Part 4. 4. Song (Not from the whole wide world I chose thee)

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