“Shadow-of-a-Leaf,” I whispered, for I saw

The crosier of a fern against the grey;

And, as the voice died, he stood dark before me.

“You sang as though you loved him. Let the mists

Unfold.”

He smiled. “See, first, that Rock,” he said,

“Dividing them.”

At once, through drifting wreaths

I saw a hill emerging, a green hill

Clothed with the dying rainbow of those tears