Or all the autumn heaven ripe with stars.

And you have made a secret pact with Sleep,

And when she comes not, or her feet delay,

Toiled in low meadows of gray asphodel

Under a pale sky where no shadows fall,

Then, hooded like her, to my side you steal,

And the night grows like a great rumouring sea,

And you a boat, and I your passenger,

And the tide lifts us with an indrawn breath

Out, out upon the murmurs and the scents,