And a wind was groaning.

"Know!"—she smote my brow; a pain,

Riddling arrows, rent my brain,

Ceased and earth fell, some vast strain;—

And the sea was moaning, moaning;—

Then I understood all thought;

What was life the spirit fraught;

Love and hate; how worlds were wrought:—

And a wind was groaning.

Then the east one said to me: