If a step draweth near,

For my love he is late!

“The skies in the darkness stoop nearer and nearer,

A cluster of stars hangs like fruit in the tree,

The fall of the water comes sweeter, comes clearer:

To what art thou listening, and what dost thou see?

Let the star-clusters grow,

Let the sweet waters flow,

And cross quickly to me.

“You night moths that hover where honey brims over