Or her desire for June and evening, tipped

By the consummation of the swallow’s wings.

IV

She says, “But in contentment I still feel

The need of some imperishable bliss.”

Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her,

Alone, shall come fulfilment to our dreams

And our desires. Although she strews the leaves

Of sure obliteration on our paths—

The path sick sorrow took, the many paths