70
Dead Thoughts 71
A Comparison 72
Mutability 73
Despair 74
The Lonely Grave 75

PART IV.

Evening Sky 79
City Lights 80
Fugitive Beauty 81
Silver Jars 82
Evening Rain 83
Toy-Boxes 84
Moods 85
Grass 86
A Landscape 87
Terror 88
Mid-Summer Dusk 89
Evening Bell from a Distant Temple 90
A Thought 91
The Stars 92
Japan 93
Leaves 94

_List of Illustrations_

"Of what is she dreaming?
Of long nights lit with orange lanterns,
Of wine-cups and compliments and kisses
of the two-sword men." Frontispiece

HEADPIECE--PART I 19

TAILPIECE--PART I 37

HEADPIECE--PART II 39

"Out of the rings and the bubbles,
The curls and the swirls of the water,
Out of the crystalline shower of drops shattered in play,
Her body and her thoughts arose." 46

"The cranes have come back to the temple,
The winds are flapping the flags about,
Through a flute of reeds
I will blow a song." 58

TAILPIECE--PART II 60

HEADPIECE--PART III 61

"Then in her heart they grew,
The snows of changeless winter,
Stirred by the bitter winds of unsatisfied desire." 70

TAILPIECE--PART III 75

HEADPIECE--PART IV