Voice on the Wind, and Other Poems

<h2><SPAN name="SUPERSTITION" id="SUPERSTITION"></SPAN>SUPERSTITION</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">In the waste places, in the dreadful night,<br/></span> <span class="i1">When the wood whispers like a wandering mind,<br/></span> <span class="i1">And silence sits and listens to the wind,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Or, 'mid the rocks, to some wild torrent's flight;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Bat-browed thou wadest with thy wisp of light<br/></span> <span class="i1">Among black pools the moon can never find;<br/></span> <span class="i1">Or, owlet-eyed, thou hootest to the blind<br/></span> <span class="i0">Deep darkness from some cave or haunted height.<br/></span> <span class="i0">He who beholds but once thy fearsome face,<br/></span> <span class="i1">Never again shall walk alone! but wan<br/></span> <span class="i3">And terrible attendants shall be his&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i1">Unutterable things that have no place<br/></span> <span class="i1">In God or Beauty&mdash;that compel him on,<br/></span> <span class="i3">Against all hope, where endless horror is.<br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</SPAN></span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />