Page:May-day and other pieces, Emerson, 1867.djvu/122

110 If, on the heath, below the moon,

I court and play with paler blood,

Me false to mine dare whisper none,—

One sallow horseman knows me good.

Go, keep your cheek's rose from the rain,

For teeth and hair with shopmen deal;

My swarthy tint is in the grain,

The rocks and forest know it real.

The wild air bloweth in our lungs,

The keen stars twinkle in our eyes,

The birds gave us our wily tongues,

The panther in our dances flies.

You doubt we read the stars on high,

Nathless we read your fortunes true;

The stars may hide in the upper sky.

But without glass we fathom you.