“I AM playing my oldest tunes,” declared she,
“All the old tunes I know,—
Those I learnt ever so long ago.”
—Why she should think just then she’d play them
Silence cloaks like snow.
When I returned from the town at nightfall
Notes continued to pour
As when I had left two hours before:
“It’s the very last time,” she said in closing;
“From now I play no more.”
A few morns onward found her fading,
And, as her life outflew,
I thought of her playing her tunes right through;
And I felt she had known of what was coming,
And wondered how she knew.
1912.
“YOU ON THE TOWER”
I
“YOU on the tower of my factory—
What do you see up there?
Do you see Enjoyment with wide wings
Advancing to reach me here?”
—“Yea; I see Enjoyment with wide wings
Advancing to reach you here.”