The Youth and the Hermit (verse)
Baldwin, Charles
The Youth and the Hermit The Youth There are no damsels in the haunted wood; No purple pennon flouts the tourney-stead; "On windmills be his frenzy spent," they said. But I have seen the path...
...But I have seen the path of greater good, And follow, eager in their eyes to fail For faith to make my quest the Holy Grail...
...Yours is the battle...
...Today The altar waits where Galahad adored...
...A thousand years...
...The Hermit I know the summons in your eyes...
...Charles Sears Baldwin...
...ours at dawn to feed The shriven souls his heavenly visions lead...
...and yet again the Lord Will send his knight when men forget the way...
Vol. 12 • August 1930 • No. 17
