TO ONE PLAYING

Play on with that music all lonely

Wandering through me like a breeze

Half‑lost in the calm of night,

A melody half‑heard only

Like the sound of stupendous seas

That in motion feel a delight.

For in thy rhythm soft pealing,

For thou in that meterless rhyme

Awakest in me a spirit stress,

A widening, deadening of feeling

That is to my normal consciousness

As Eternity is to Time.