Page:Hephaestus, Persephone at Enna, and Sappho in Leucadia.djvu/31

 :Be happy as of old, remembering not
 * The little shower that gathered at the break
 * Of dawns so blue and golden. For to you,
 * Sad-hearted Alien, have I come afar
 * By many lands and seas to lure you back,—
 * Back where the olive groves and laughing hills
 * Still glow so purple from Aeolia’s coast
 * And all the harbour-lights have watched so long,
 * Like weary eyes, for you to come again.


 * Yes, well I know them where their paths of gold
 * Once lay like wavering music on the sea.


 * And slowly there, like wine with honey made
 * Too sweet, our languid days shall flow.


 * O home
 * Where we so long ago were happy once!


 * ’Twas but a little time I went from you,
 * And I have sorrowed for it, and am wise;
 * And with my wisdom, lo, the tremulous wings
 * Of twilight love have now flown home again.


 * It is too late, my Phaon.
 * Your light hand
 * Has crushed the silver goblet of my heart,
 * And all the wine is spilt; the page is read,
 * And from the tale the olden glory gone;