Clouds Without Water

IV , For there you sat, you smiled, you chatted on When for an hour we met (to call it meeting y 5 J ) Myself alone perceiving the keen cold Barred by the bleak ice of society ¥ P . ; ; Sword at your heart, the speechless malison From even the lover's glance, the lover's greeting. ; , That trembled on your tongue, the while it trolled The intonation that means ecstasy !) . . Its senseless clamour of necessary wit One ray of saddest gladness lit the dusk: TM ; And woke the senseless necessary laughter This — that I saw you pale and suffering, . yess . . The senseless necessary reply to it A goddess armed with myrrh instead of musk, yey ao: The long sad silly commonplace thereafter. With lips too cold to pray, too dry to sing. eens ¥ P . ; . Suppose we had risen, as quick as thought, and stood For by that sigh I knew the adorable PP asa oN : . And caught and kissed — what could the storm have dot.c Truth, that you wept in secret over me. ; . Worse than this sickening fog of solitude? Your silence was the dumb despair of hell; gees os Who can do worse than take away the sun? Who read it right read love. Strange cruelty, 4 ; They better had take care, I think. One da That who would die for you, sweet murderess, y * . ; . We shall go mad, and take ourseives away. Should find his comfort in your bitterness! 6 , _ 9g — — 39=