But soon a change smote through me, and I fell

Weary of stillness in the wide blue day,

Weary of breathless beauty, where the rose

Of sunset flushes with no fragrant sigh,

For that my soul was native with the spheres

Where music makes an everlasting morn.

All music in that ancient isle was mine

That pulsed the air or floated on the calm,—

Old music veiled in the bemoaning breeze,

Or whispering kisses to the yearning sea,