The high strong light within her, tho' she bleeds,

Traces the letters of returned misdeeds.

She sees what seed long sown, ripened of late,

Bears this fierce crop; and she discerns her fate

From origin to agony, and on

As far as the wave washes long and wan

Off one disastrous impulse: for of waves

Our life is, and our deeds are pregnant graves

Blown rolling to the sunset from the dawn.