Lovers Gift and Crossing

The meaning of the bee's hum in the ear of the early jasmine has escaped the learned but the poet knows." The sun went down in a blaze of blush the moon loitered behind the trees and the south wind whispered to the lotus that the poet was not as simple as he seemed. [...] The other is the crowned queen of heaven the mother throned on the fullness of golden autumn ; she who in the harvest-time brings straying hearts to the smile sweet as tears the beauty deep as the sea of silence —brings them to the temple oP the Unknown at the holy confluence of Life and Death. [...] Does the breeze bring the whisper of the world which I leave behind with its music of tears melting in the sunny silence ? or the breath of the island in the faraway sea basking in the Summer of the unknown flowers ? 2 When the market is over and they return homewards through the dusk, I sit at the wayside to watch thee plying thy boat Crossing the dark water with the sunset [...] The wedding hour is in the twilight when the birds have sung their last and the winds are at rest on the waters when the sunset spreads the carpet in the bridal chamber and the lamp is made ready to burn through the night. [...] I HAVE met thee where the night touches the edge of the day ; where the light startles the darkness into dawn and the waves carry the kiss of the one shore to the other.