Sonnets and Songs

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</SPAN></span></p> <h3>XXXII</h3> <h3><i>Music</i></h3> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Music has opened her hands,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Through fingers her jewels are falling,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Fingers so delicate slender,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Pale as the ghost of a flower.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Jewels of crimson, the life<br/></span> <span class="i0">Ebbing from hearts that are broken,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Roses and wine and red sunsets,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Flames of undying desire.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Jewels of azure, the sea<br/></span> <span class="i0">Dreaming of stars, and the morning<br/></span> <span class="i0">Dancing with life, then the silence<br/></span> <span class="i0">Blue of mysterious caves.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Jewels of green, and the grass<br/></span> <span class="i0">Lifts up its hands to the summer,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Hiding insidious serpents,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Fair as the sweets that are sin.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</SPAN></span><span class="i0">Jewels more bright than the sun<br/></span> <span class="i0">Music lets fall from her fingers.<br/></span> <span class="i0">We who have stood in the shadow&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i0">How may we die for her sake?<br/></span></div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />