XXXIV — To K. de M.

Love blows as the wind blows,

Love blows into the heart.

- Nile Boat-Song

Life in her creaking shoes

Goes, and more formal grows,

A round of calls and cues:

Love blows as the wind blows.

Blows!... in the quiet close

As in the roaring mart,

By ways no mortal knows

Love blows into the heart.

The stars some cadence use,

Forthright the river flows,

In order fall the dews,

Love blows as the wind blows:

Blows!... and what reckoning shows

The courses of his chart?

A spirit that comes and goes,

Love blows into the heart.