WATCHING THE NEEDLEBOATS AT SAN SABBA [5]

I heard their young hearts crying

Loveward above the glancing oar

And heard the prairie grasses sighing:

No more, return no more![6]

O hearts, O sighing grasses,

Vainly your loveblown bannerets mourn!

No more will the wild wind that passes

Return, no more return.

[Trieste, 1912]