Of that ideal you worshiped all your life?

It is the atavistic voice that’s waking,

The dormant beast in you. Beware! Beware!

TO ONE WHO COULD NOT LOVE

I

You told me that you love the water,

The cascades’ roaring, rushing water,

The rivers’ gently flowing water,

The pools’ mysterious silent water,

The erring brooklets’ whisp’ring water,