APPENDIX IV
PROSE VERSIONS OF POEMS, ETC.
A
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS IN THE COURT
OF LOVE
[Vide ante, p. [409].]
Why is my Love like the Sun?
1. The Dawn = the presentiment of my Love.
No voice as yet had made the air
Be music with thy name: yet why
That obscure [over aching] Hope: that yearning Sigh?
That sense of Promise everywhere?
Beloved! flew thy spirit by?
2. The Sunrise = the suddenness, the all-at-once of Love—and the first silence—the beams of Light fall first on the distance, the interspace still dark.