ORPHEUS
Cold lips and chaste eyes
Of frost-fall that leap,
That shake from the skies
On the earth in her sleep
Kiss nuptial, arise
As the lyre-strings sweep!
Come forth! I invoke thee, O frost, the valleys await
thee and weep.
THE FROST
So silent and wise
In her cerement clothes,
So secretly lies
My soul in my snows;
T awake, I arise,
For my spirit now knows
The first time in her eyes
That a voice may unclose
My petals: I hear it; I come; I clasp the warm ground
In my passion profound.
ORPHEUS
In valleys heaped high,
In drifts lying low,
Swift slopes to the sky,
Come forth to me, snow!
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