How in the soul’s inharmony there lies

The incoherent unity of things.

The Forum Willard Huntington Wright


A THRENODY
In Memory of the Destruction of Messina By Earthquake

Sicilian Muse! O thou who sittest dumb

Amid the sodden fields and ways forlorn,

Where once the herdsmen singing, watched their kine

Breast-deep in fragrance, odorous eve and morn;

Stranger to thee, yet led by love I come,