The Golden Darkness/Remembering or Forgetting
REMEMBERING OR FORGETTING.
Remembering or forgetting, spring on spring,
How starlight beats forever down the rain,
And how, like tide on tide, when autumns wane,
Flowers fold away the sundown’s coloring,—
How starlight beats forever down the rain,
And how, like tide on tide, when autumns wane,
Flowers fold away the sundown’s coloring,—
Still do I toss on this sea vastly agleam
With starlight and with sunlight, wave on wave,
Folding weird silver years across my grave,
And deep surges of silence over my dream.
With starlight and with sunlight, wave on wave,
Folding weird silver years across my grave,
And deep surges of silence over my dream.
Remembering or forgetting, year on year,
How twilights flee like waves across the sky,
Still do I voice all silence in a cry,
All darkness in the glimmer of a tear,
How twilights flee like waves across the sky,
Still do I voice all silence in a cry,
All darkness in the glimmer of a tear,
Till a wind will part the dusk of the sea,
And the weird starlight will close in on me. . . .
And the weird starlight will close in on me. . . .