Here on the cliff beneath the oleanders,

In the long limpid twilight of the spring,

Looking toward Khios where the amber sky

Was pierced by the faint arrow of a star.

How should they know the wind of a new beauty

Sweeping my soul had winnowed it with song?

I have been glad tho’ love should come or go,

Happy as trees that find a wind to sway them,

Happy again when it has left them rest.

Others shall say: “Grave Dica wrought her death.”