Hoofs of Pegasus

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>LARKSPUR</h2> <div class="poetry-container"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="bigfont">O</span>UT in the garden as you played,</span> <span class="i0">A breeze moved to and fro</span> <span class="i0">Across my bed of larkspur</span> <span class="i0">In grave adagio.</span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">The wind with touch most delicate,</span> <span class="i0">Went up and down the scale—</span> <span class="i0">Wine-dark, frail amethyst, and blue,</span> <span class="i0">Blue as Our Lady’s veil.</span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">You played softly to yourself,</span> <span class="i0">Your brown hands on the keys;</span> <span class="i0">And God with larkspur,</span> <span class="i0">You with sound, were making harmonies.</span></div> </div></div> <hr class="chap" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />