Do you remember Etajima, And how, upon a moon-fogged sea, As ghostly as ever a tide shall be, We passed an island silently? And how a low voice in the gloom Of the temple pine-trees leaning there Said @3sayonara@1 to one somewhere Unseen in the shadow-haunted air? Just @3sayonara@1: but it seemed The soul of all farewells that night, The sigh of all withdrawn delight, The sound of love's last rapture-rite. And now, after long years, it comes Again from isles of memory To bring once more to birth in me The breath of all lost witchery. Yes, one low word of parting, now Echoing, through the fog of years, Has touched my heart with beauty's tears, And youth through all things reappears. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JANGLING MEMORY by KATHERINE MANSFIELD SPOT SIX DIFFERENCES by MARVIN BELL JOHNNY SPAIN'S WHITE HEIFER by HAYDEN CARRUTH MOUNTAIN FARM by MALCOLM COWLEY AGAINST THE REST OF THE YEAR by JAMES GALVIN |