What words Are left thee then Who hast squandered on thy Forgetfulness eternity’s I Love?

As it Were tissue of silver I’ll wear, O Fate, thy grey, And go mistily radiant, clad Like the moon.

Behold her, Running through the waves Eager to reach the land; The water laps her, Sun and wind are on her,

‘Boy, lying Where the long grass Edges the pool’s brim, What do you watch There in the water? The blue

So may you sleep alway, My baby, my dear son: Amen, Amen, Amen. My baby, my dear son.

Was it love breathed on us as on t… Dawn breathes for a short space an… Or loved we never at all who but m… With too dim vision the guarded my… Were we unfaithful or were we unwi…

Little Sister Rose-Marie, Will thy feet as willing-light Run through Paradise, I wonder, As they run the blue skies under, Willing feet, so airy-light?

I have minded me Of the noon-day brightness, And the cricket’s drowsy Singing in the sunshine. . I have minded me

These be three silent things: The falling snow . . . the hour Before the dawn . . . the mouth of… Just dead.

And the centurion who stood by sai… Truly this was a son of God. Not long ago but everywhere I go There is a hill and a black windy… Portent of hill, sky, day’s eclips…

Sea-foam And coral! Oh, I’ll Climb the great pasture rocks And dream me mermaid in the sun’s Gold flood.

Heard ye the maidens Went through the meadows, Early, O, early, While yet the dew was Wet on the grass?

Oh Lady, let the sad tears fall To speak thy pain, Gently as through the silver dusk The silver rain. Oh, let thy bosom breathe its grie…

Dost thou Not feel them slip, How cold! how cold! the moon’s Thin wavering finger-tips, along Thy throat?

Three grey women walk with me Fate and Grief and Memory. My fate brought grief; my grief mu… With me through Eternity, Such thy power, memory.