On high, with arms outstretched as in distress,

Cutting the lone grey sky, one broken cross—


—Say, long since seen, long-vanished sign of grace,

Man’s needs, man’s sorrows, why from thy dim height

Thy most austere, remote, abiding place,

Steal’st thou, grey ghost, to visit me to-night?

IV
VAGRANTS

Magician of the labouring brain,

Shepherd who herds a wandering train,