Alfred Noyes Quote

Critics, you have been so kind,
I would not have you think me blind
To all the wisdom that you preach;
Yet before I strictlier run
In straiter lines of chiselled speech,
Give me one more hour, just one
Hour to hunt the fairy gleam
That flutters through this childish dream.

Apologia. - The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907) - Forest of Wild Thyme