A splendor where a god might take his way.

∗ ∗ ∗

It was the brink of night and everywhere

Tall redwoods spread their filmy tops in air;

Huge trunks, like shadows upon shadow cast,

Pillared the under twilight, vague and vast.

∗ ∗ ∗

Lightly I broke green branches for a bed,

And gathered ferns, a pillow for my head.

And what to this were kingly chambers worth—