UNDER THE STARS
I TAKE my soul in my hand, I give it, a bounding ball (Over Love's sea and land), For you to toss and let fall At command.
Dear, as we sit here together — Silence and alternate speech, Dreams that are loose from the tether, Stars in an infinite reach Of dark ether:
Over and under and through Silence and stars and the dreams, How my emotions pursue, With a still passion that teems Full of you.
O what can the stars desire, And what can the night fulfil, Of a thousand thoughts on fire That burns on my soul's high hill Like a pyre.