Soul that canst soar!
Body may slumber:
Body shall cumber
Soul-flight no more.


III

Waft of soul's wing!
What lies above?
Sunshine and Love,
Skyblue and Spring!
Body hides--where?
Ferns of all feather,
Mosses and heather,
Yours be the care!




PROLOGUE TO _JOCOSERIA_

1883

Wanting is--what?
Summer redundant,
Blueness abundant,
--Where is the blot?
Beamy the world, yet a blank all the same,
--Framework which waits for a picture to frame: