Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.

The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day.

It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.

The day you chose to leave me it rained constantly in truth I swore the rain to be the tears of cuspids eyes.

The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged - though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.