She is mine enemy

Hate her, O hate her, she will slay thy soul!

Tannhäuser.

And is my soul not slain within me now?

Yet, I do hate her—in these waking hours.

But in my sleep she grows upon the sense,

A solitary lotus that pales forth

In the wide seas of space and separateness.

That radiance!—Amber-scented voice of light,

Calling my name, ever, ever calling—