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.