O Life, how naked and how hard when known!

III.

Life said, As thou hast carved me, such am I.

Then memory, like the nightjar on the pine,

And sightless hope, a woodlark in night sky,

Joined notes of Death and Life till night’s decline:

Of Death, of Life, those inwound notes are mine.


THE DAY OF THE DAUGHTER OF HADES.

I.