He came along with me from home
To keep me company.
He went as fast as I could run;
I wonder how he crossed the sky?
I’m sure he hasn’t legs and feet
Or any wings to fly.
Yet here he is above their roof;
Perhaps he thinks it isn’t right
For me to go so far alone,
Tho’ mother said I might.
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Dreamily over the roofs
Out in the lonely treeA bird is calling, calling.Slowly over the earthThe wings of night are falling;My heart like the bird in the treeIs calling, calling, calling.
The summer dawn came over-soon,
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…
The dreams of my heart and my mind pass,
But I have had from a childThe deep solace of song;If that should ever leave me,Let me find death and stayWith things whose tunes are played out and forgottenLike the rain of yesterday.
OH Earth, you are too dear to-night,
Floats rainy fragrance and the farDeep voice of the ocean that talks to the ground?Oh Earth, you gave me all I have,I love you, I love you,—oh what have IThat I can give you in return—Except my body after I die?
When Love was born I think he lay
And whiles he smiled and whiles would playAnd whiles would take his rest.But always, folded out of sight,The wings were growing strongThat were to bear him off in flightErelong, erelong.
When I am dead and over me bright April
Though you shall lean above me broken-hearted,I shall not care.I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peacefulWhen rain bends down the bough;And I shall be more silent and cold-heartedThan you are now.