16 OCTOBER 1926, Page 18

POETRY

IF WE FOUND WORLDS

IF we found worlds of sapphire and of jade Peopled with Lancelots and proud Etarres Fit for our perfect mating, if one laid Star upon star and built a house of stars

And then Calling us in out of the ways of men

Tipped to our mouths from alabaster jars The honey-mead of kings—wed be afraid—

Afraid that these found splendours were not worth The smallest moment of dreaming, nor the white Turrets of Heaven so lovely as the birth Of eglantine upon a meadow height, Afraid To see the brave questing and the full years made ' Pitiful by this end, and through the light - • We would go crying for our sweet dark earth.

PAMELA TRAYERS•