As now a hope caught from a homing word.

II

She came unto him—as the springtime does

Unto the land where all lies dead and cold,

Until her rosary of days is told

And beauty, prayer-like, blossoms where death was.—

Nature divined her coming; yea, the dusk

Seemed thinking of that happiness: behold,

No cloud it had to blot its marigold

Moon—great and golden—o'er the slopes of musk;