TO HER
YOUR presence like a benison to me Wakes my sick soul to dreamful ecstasy, I fancy that some old Arabian night Saw you my houri and my heart's delight.
And wandering forth beneath the passionate moon Your love-strung zither and my soul in tune, We knew the joy, the haunting of the pain That like a flame thrills through me now again.
To-night we sit where sweet the spice winds blow, A wind the northland lacks and ne'er shall know, With clasped hands and spirits all aglow As in Arabia in the long ago.