Adventure

I went slowly through the wood of shadows,

Thinking always I should meet some one:

There was no one.

I found a hollow

Sweet to rest in all night long:

I did not stay.

I came out beyond the trees

To the moaning sea.

Over the sea swam a cloud the outline of a ship:

What if that ship held my adventure

Under its sails?

Come quickly to me, come quickly,

I am waiting.

I am here on the sand;

Sail close!

I want to go over the waves . . .

The sand holds me back.

Oh adventure, if you belong to me,

Don't blow away down the sky!