While with the other I see the long lines of the slope

Break in mid air, a wave surprisingly arrested;

And above it, wavering, bodiless, colorless, unreal,

The long thin lazy fingers of the heat.

III

Not noisily, but solemnly and pale,

In a meditative ecstasy, you entered life,

As for some strange rite, to which you alone held the clue.

Child, life did not give rude strength to you;

From the beginning you would seem to have thrown away,