THE WINGÉD CLOAK

I DRAW my cloak about me ...

Tattered and gray

To others it may be.

It seems to me

Of golden hue,

Broidered with mystic blue,

Woven each dawn anew,

And light as dew-ringed cobweb

On the grass.

Unscathed and joyously

In it I pass

Through drenching torrent, wind,

Fierce pitiless sun,

Till day is done.