| Once again that loosener of limbs, Love, | |
| bittersweet and inescapable, crawling thing, | |
| seizes me. |
| The moon and Pleiades have set | |
| half the night is gone | |
| time passes | |
| I sleep alone . . . |
| I say someone in another time will remember us. |
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