Whose tides know nought of personality,

Engulf me; Me! beside whose deeps you stand

Like the least lakelet of yon lake-strewn land.

I am so rare, so strange, nor faun nor fay

Can match me, yet my tale is “every-day,”

Almost too slight to utter! Meanwhile we

Watch these late hours together silently.

XIII
EVENING

They are walking, our dim ones, to-night, to-night,

Grey over grey, greyest spirits all