Merlin’s Counsel

Wine-sweet, God’s own blood filled

A golden grail.

Passed hand to hand, no blood-drop spilled

From that gold grail.

Passed age to age, this mystic wine

Within the grail

Turns each of us a holier shrine

Than golden grail.

Then let us each drink God’s own blood

From God’s own grail

Though never find, by land nor flood,

The Holy Grail.