The Silence of Love

Tossed like a falcon from the hunter's wrist, A sweeping plunge, a sudden shattering noise, And thou hast dared, with a long spiral twist, The elastic stairway to the rising sun.

The winds that on the uplands softly lie, Grow keener where the ice is lingering Where the first robin on the sheltered Pipes blithely to the tune, "When Spring goes by!"Hear him again, "Spring!

HE slender moon and one pale star, A rose leaf and a silver From some god's garden blown afar, Go down the gold deep tranquilly. Within the south there rolls and grows A mighty town with tower and spire, From a cloud bastion masked…

(The refrain is quoted by Edward Fitzgerald inone of his Growing, growing, all the glory going; Flashing out of fire and light, burning to a husk, All the world's a-dying and failing in the dusk--

Dear Morris--here is your letter--Can my answer reach you now? Fate has left me your debtor, You will remember how; For I went away to Nantucket

I HT of death beside the lonely That went beyond the limit of my sight, Seeming the image of his mastery,

I LL in the wood that is dark and kind  But afar off tolls the main, Afar, far off I hear the wind,  And the roving of the rain. The shade is dark as a palmer's hood,  The air with balm is bland:

Gather the leaves from the forest And blow them over the world, The wind of winter follows The wind of autumn furled. Only the beech tree cherishes A leaf or two for ruth, Their stems too tough for the tempest, Like thoughts of…