Into the saddle and the dull way creeps

Beneath the spurred impatience of his horse,

He longs so for me!

(Pause—She scans the moonlit country.)

Shrouded like a corse,

Hoarding a mother’s secret, lies the sea;

And Capri, like a giant Niobe,

Outgazes Fate!

O sweet, too gentle lies

And kisses sword-like! Would the sun might rise