Scan 34

Songs of my violin, 1901

27 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.

1VI.

3Awoke, and with a longing look upgazed

4To where the moon, unhazed,

5Seemed fain to pause, sky-centred, far above.

6She opened shyly then her chaliced soul,

7And into it there stole

8The whispered moonbeams of her lover's love.

10VII.

12She answered back in perfumes, rich and rare,

13That rose like incensed prayer

14In fragrant waftures through the nave of night;

15And lured her wooer with those sweet replies

16To linger in the skies

17And let her dream forever in his light.

19VIII.

21And oh! how yearningly he longed to stay

22Upon his lonely way,

23But, fate-compelled, he must his course pursue,

24Forever wandering through the welkin's main,

25Beloved, but loved in vain—

26A pale Ahasver of the boundless blue.

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