Also, Wind, thou broughtest the breath of the sea,
The sound of its myriad waves.
And in nights when I lay on the lonely sands
Stretching mine arms to thee,
Thou gavest me something—faint
and vast and sweet,
Something ineffable, wistful, from far away,
Elsewhere—Beyond—
And thou wast kind to me in my times of love,
Cooling
my lips
That my lover wore away,
While, wafting the scent from his divided hair,
Thou show’dst the stars
between
Far away, and eclipsed by his burning eyes
Even
the stars.
And now I almost foresee the place and the hour
When I shall open my dying
lips to thee
And
receive a last cool kiss.
Afterwards, Wind, since I have always loved thee,—
Whirl my dust to the scented
heart of a moghra flower,
His
flower, but, ah, thou knowest,—
So
often thy kisses have mingled with his and mine.