 | The Complete Poems and Collected Letters of Adelaide Crapsey |  |
[What news comrade upon the mountain top]
What news comrade upon the mountain topFrom the courts of the sun? What news from the skies
When great Orion strides the open night,
Heaven's Hunter: hath he told you of Heaven's
Forests and the quarry of the Gods? They do
Not spare their prey I warrant you. Skillful
And merciless.. Saw you young Cynthia threading her
Silver way among the stars and when she yearned o'er him,
The sleeping shepherd on the hills, caught you
Her breath of love? The winds have passed
You in the night, what have they told you of the
Illimitable?—Hath your soul followed thence and gone
beyond the [two undeciphered words] of their journey
envisaged the Ultimate—
| The Complete Poems and Collected Letters of Adelaide Crapsey | |