First Aid 279
‘IT love you because you're as crazy as I,
Because all the shadows and lights of the sky
Of existence are centred in you;
The cross-jaggéd lightning, the roar of typhoon
Are as good as the slumber of time as we swoon
With the sun half asleep in the blue.
You’re a dream, you're a mystery, empress and slave,
You're like life, the inscrutable beat of its wave,
You are always the all-unexpected !
When you've promised yourself, then you push me
away;
When you scorn me, you suddenly kindle and slay ;
You hate truth as the lies She rejected!
I love you because you are gallant and proud,
(Your soul is a sun and your body a cloud)
And you leap from my arms when I woo you ;
Because you love earth and its worms, you caress
The stars and the seas, and you mock my distress
While the sorrows of others thrill through you |!
I love you because my life’s lost in your being ;
You burn for me all the night long, and on seeing
Me, jest at your tears—and allot mine!
Because you elude me, a wave of the lake,
Because you are danger and poison, my snake,
Because you are mine, and are not mine!”
Just as she had finished, Elsie arrived from Barley
Grange with our trunks. Maisie and Lamus said they
would leave us to unpack, and went off.
She and Lala dropped in from time to time in the
course of the next five days to take us motoring, or
to dinner, or the theatre, or to parties.
I thought they made rather a point of keeping off the
subject which was the real reason of their visits.
D.D.F. T