THOUGH art no longer here,
No longer shall we see thy face.
But, in that other place,
Where may be heard
The roar of the world rushing down the wantways of the stars;
And the silver bars
Of heaven's gate
Shine soft and clear:
Thou mayest wait.
No longer shall we see
Thee walking in the crowded streets,
But where the ocean of the Future beats
Against the flood--gates of the Present, swirling to this earth,
Another birth
Thou mayest have;
Another Arcady
May thee receive.
Not here thou dost remain
Thou art gone far away,
Where, at the portals of the day,
The hours ever dance in ring, a silvern--footed throng,
Thou canst return no more;
Not as the happy time of spring
Comes after winter burgeoning
On wood and vo1d in folds of living green, for thou art dead.
