Down the broad garden-walk, where cool and clear

The sharp-defined white moonlight marks the path.

Not the young moon that shy and wavering down

Trembled through leafy tracery of the boughs

In happy nights of June; the peace that wraps

Me here is not the warm and golden peace

Of summer afternoons that lull the soul

To dreamy indolence; but strong white peace,

Peace that is conscious power in repose.

No fragrance floats on the autumnal air;