Who Is It That Answers?
The clouds no more are flocking
After the flushing sun;
Bees end their long droning,
The bat’s hunt is begun;
And the tired wind that went flittering
Up and down the hill
Lies like a shadow still,
Like a shadow still.
Who is it that’s calling
Out of the deepening dark,
Calling, calling, calling?—
No!—yet hark!
The sleepy wind wakes, carrying
Up and down the hill
A voice how small and still,
How sweet and still!
Who is it that answers
Out of a quiet cloud—
“Stay, oh stay! I come, I come!”
Cried at last aloud?
My voice, my heart went answering
Up and down the hill—
Mine so strange and still,
Mine grave and still.