But still I heard the Wind of Truth
That roared without.
I laid a fire of Memories
And sat before the glow,
But through the chinks and round the door
The wind would blow.
I left the House, for all the night
I heard the Wind of Truth; —
I followed where it seemed to lead
Through all my youth.
But when I sought the House of Dreams,
To creep within and die,
The Wind of Truth had levelled it,
And passed it by.
I felt my lover look at herAnd then turn suddenly to me.Her hair was dull and drew no lightAnd yet its color was as mine;Her eyes were strangely like my eyesTho’ love had never made them shine.Her body was a thing grown thin,Hungry for love that never came;Her soul was frozen in the darkUnwarmed forever…
I was a child of the shining meadow,I was a sister of the sky.There in the windy flood of morningLonging lifted its weight from me,Lost as a sob in the midst of cheering,Swept as a sea-bird out to sea.
One by one the hills go out,The road and the pepper-tree.I watch the fog float in at the windowWith the whole world gone blind,Everything, even my longing, drowses,Even the thoughts in my mind.I put my head on my hands before me,There is nothing left to be done or said,There is nothing to hope for, I…
Come to us, go from us, whence no one knows;So the old tunes float in my mind,And go from me leaving no trace behind,Like fragrance borne on the hush of the wind.but in the instant the airs remainI know the laughter and the painOf times that will not come again.I try to catch at many…
In Nazareth;There fell no rain to ease the heat,And dusk drew on with tired feetAnd stifled breath.The shop was low and hot and square,And fresh-cut wood made sharp the air,While all day longThe saw went tearing thru the oakThat moaned as tho’ the tree’s heart brokeBeneath its wrong.The narrow street was full of cries,Of bickering…
So pure and yet so pitiful for sin?They say the soul will pass the Heavy Door,And yearning upward, learn creation’s lore —The body buried ‘neath the earthly din.But thine shall live forever, it hath beenSo near the soul, and shall be evermore.Oh eyes that see so far thro’ misted tears,Oh Death, behold, these eyes can…
