Then a great love

Triumphing over sorrow, like the light

Clearing the west when sunset’s wrath has waned

Before the risen stars—a mystery—welled

Up through me radiant, helpless where you lay

In the calm pose of sleep: and above Time,

Our little passion, and the circumstance

Of temporal tumult, self to self we met;

And sundered reverent.... Faintest breath of flowers

Stirred in the twilight fragrantly, and there