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.
1878
