RETURN [p. xxviii]

Now I am come again, you who have so desired

My coming, why do you look away from me?

Why does your cheek burn against me—have I inspired

Such anger as sets your mouth unwontedly?

Ah, here I sit while you break the music beneath

Your bow; for broken it is, and hurting to hear:

Cease then from music—does anguish of absence bequeath

Me only aloofness when I would draw near?

THE APPEAL [p. xxix]