The smell of beasts, the smell of dust—The Enchanted Thing!

All my life long I shall see moonlight on the fern

And the black trunks of trees. Only the hair

Of any woman can belong to God.

The stalks are cruelly broken where we trod,

There had been violets there,

I shall not care

As I used to do when I see the bracken burn.

BESIDE THE BED

Someone has shut the shining eyes, straightened and folded