FOR SCARCEST LOVE

For scarcest love I’d roam the world, away,

go with head bare and humble, barefoot, bleeding,

go in the Ice-month, feeling endless May,

go braving storms, blackbird song hearing, heeding,

go crossing wastes, heart with dewed pearls a-beading.

For scarcest love I’d roam the world away,

Carolling at the gates, a singer pleading.