“And Ο, I know that I shall return,

But let me lie first mid the unfeeling fern.

“For there is a flame that has blown too near,

And there is a name that has grown too dear,

And there is a fear....”

And to the still hills and cool earth and far sky I made moan,

“The heart in my bosom is not my own!

“O would I were free as the wind on wing;

Love is a terrible thing!”

Grace Fallow Norton