With the moon above me.

XII.

Thyrsis, who loved the rain in the dreaming hollows,

Wandereth now soft-sandalled in misty ways,

Where the scent of flag

Recalleth not

Hylas, lonely.

Sister

Sherwood Anderson

The young artist is a woman, and at evening she comes to talk to me in my room. She is my sister, but long ago she has forgotten that and I have forgotten.