To work out the astral span.

And a woman wept, and prayed ere she slept,
For a dream to ease her pain;
But she dreamed instead of a man long dead,
Who had loved her all in vain.



WOMAN



Strange are the ways that her feet have trod
Since first she was set in the path of duty,
Finished and fair by the hand of God,
To carry her message of love and beauty.
Delicate creature of light and shade,
She gleamed like an opal, on wide worlds under:
And earth looked up to her half afraid,
While heaven looked down at her, full of wonder.

Flame of the comet and mist of the moon,
And ray of the sun all mingled in her.
And the heart of her asked but a single boon -
That love should seek her, and find her, and win her.
She grasped the scope of the First Intent
That made her kingdom FOR HER, no other,
And joyfully into her place she went -
The primal mate, and the primal mother.