To step aside, to watch and wait

Beside the wave, outside the gate,

With all life's pulses in your breast:

To absolutely rest, to pray

In some lone mountain while you may.

That sad sweet fragrance. It had sense,

And sound, and voice. It was a part

Of that which had possessed my heart,

And would not of my will go hence.

'Twas Autumn's breath; 'twas dear as kiss