Beneath the pines he piped and swayed,

Master of passion and of power;

He was his soul and what he played,

Immortal for a happy hour.

He, singing into nature’s heart,

Guiding his will by the world’s will,

With deep, unconscious, childlike art

Had sung his soul out and was still.

And then at evening came the bark

That stirred his dreaming heart’s desire;