I KNOW NOT from what distant time thou art ever coming nearer to meet me. Thy sun and stars can never keep thee hidden from me for aye. In many a morning and eve thy footsteps have been heard and thy messenger has come within my heart and called me in secret. I know not why to-day my life is all astir, and a feeling of tremulous joy is passing through my heart. It is as if the time were come to wind up my work, and I feel in the air a faint smell of thy sweet presence.
THE MORNING-light aches with the pain of parting. Poet, take up thy flute! Let be, if thou must depart, and go, leaving thy song to the flowers in this dew-dripping autumn. Such a morning will come again at the gold-tinted border of the East with kunda flowers in her locks. In the shady garden path, plaintive with dove's cooing, tender with the caressing enchantment of the green, will rise again the vision of this light, her steps tinkling with the anklet of thine own songs. Let be, if thou must depart.