University of Virginia Library

“Yet once again. What dost thou see or hear?”

70

“Drifting of giant clouds; encircling sea;
Great waves; a raft of tree made fast to tree;
Upon the raft a man.
The man in rage
Hath gnawed his flesh his famine to assuage.”
“What doth the man?”
“He sits with covered head.”
“Is the man weeping?”
“Lord, the man is dead.”