The Bracelet Of Grass

The opal heart of afternoon             Was clouding on to throbs of storm,             Ashen within the ardent west             The lips of thunder muttered harm,             And as a bubble like to break             Hung heaven's trembling amethyst,             When with the sedge-grass by the lake             I braceleted her wrist.             And when the ribbon grass was tied,             Sad with the happiness we planned,             Palm linked in palm we stood awhile             And watched the raindrops dot the sand;             Until the anger of the breeze             Chid all the lake's bright breathing down,             And ravished all the radiancies             From her deep eyes of brown.             We gazed from shelter on the storm,             And through our hearts swept ghostly pain             To see the shards of day sweep past,             Broken, and none might mend again.             Broken, that none shall ever mend;             Loosened, that none shall ever tie.             O the wind and the wind, will it never end?             O the sweeping past of the ruined sky!