Still, though your skies may be the summer’s own,

Of all your moods I like the wildest best;

I love the wind and its mad, warring tone,

Its anger, and its yearning and unrest;

For in man’s soul there is an answering mood,

A passionate storm with wind and driving rain

All through a night—love by dull pain pursued,

Then days when skies are kind and blue again,—

Blue, but they shed their bitter, biting frost,

And the sun burns with but a mocking heat,