She said, “Yes—but I lie bleeding on the moss,

Crying this word.”

I answered, “This is so; but wherefore?” and asked, idly,

“Wherefore remember him who brought to your lone little fire

The log that now is ashes?”

She shivered in the cold dawn;

I saw that her eyes were darker than shadows.

Her fair mouth was like my perfect bow,

But I could fit no more arrows to it.

She said, “Hunter, see how gray are these rocks