Valentine's Day Excerpt from Woodland Poems

Here is a Valentine's Day excerpt from Woodland Poems entitled:

Atheotha and Hayuya

Hayuya: Love as dreams of deepest matter of night,

               For love that sleeps I take my care,

               Love purest-born, accepting sight,

               Forlorn of woman's touch upon my hair:

               For love of Atheotha I repair.

Atheotha: Never have I dreamed of sympathy's sight

                  For more to see in love to dream at night,

                  Of he to be my only care;

                  For love, my cares already white,

                  With beads and purple shells I braid my hair.

Hayuya: This moon was white this night my love was made,

               The night I saw a gleaming light,

               Dancing in the green-corn parade

               When quick my hand caressed her passing sight:

               Our eyes soon met and thought that love just might.

               When I was touched as by her eyes alone

               I saw upon my heart inside,

               What few would see, what few have known,

               A figure straying by a stream beside:

               In my blue heart a white-woman replied.

               Therefore this night I contemplate my theme
               Of shy indifference and loss
               For secret words and bought esteem,
               To lay upon a bed of lonely moss
               With Atheotha, though her heart is false.

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