Page:The poems of Richard Watson Gilder, Gilder, 1908.djvu/460

432 The gray walls of the garden

Hold grassy walks between

Bright beds of yellow blossoms,

Golden against the green.

And in the roof of the arbor

Leaves woven through and through,—

Great grape leaves, making shadows,—

Shine green against the blue.

And, O, in the August weather

What wonders new are seen!

Long beds of azure blossoms

Cool blue against the green.

The gray walls of the garden

Hold paths of pure delight,

And, in the emerald, blooms of pearl

Are white against the night.

THE MARBLE POOL

marble pool, like the great sea, hath moods—

Fierce angers, slumbers, deep beatitudes.

In sudden gusts the pool, in lengthened waves,—

As in a mimic tempest,—tosses and raves.

In the still, drowsy, dreaming midday hours

It sleeps and dreams among the dreaming flowers.

'Neath troubled skies the surface of its sleep

Is fretted; how the big drops rush and leap!

Now 't is a mirror where the sky of night

Sees its mysterious face of starry light;