Jennings Carmichael

“ I kneel alone in the red fire-glow,
And hear the wings of the wind sweep by;
You are out afar in the night, I know.
And the sough of the wind is like a cry.
You are out afar—and I wait within,
A grave-eyed woman whose pulse is slow ”

“ When all our knowledge has larger grown,
I may understand why you stray to-night,
And I am left, with the past alone.
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