But lo, he touched the mischance and life ran straight!

Was it the storm-spirit, storm’s pilot,

With all the heaving débris of Noah’s sunken days

Dragged on his loins;

Law’s spirit wandering to us

Through Nature’s anarchy,

Wandering towards us when the Titans yet were young?

Perhaps Moses and Buddha he met.

[She speaks aloud.]

The shadow of these pomegranate boughs