Altair

oleh: Karle Wilson Baker

Three of them walk together
Joyous and fair and high,
Through the still, heavenly weather
Up in the summer sky ...

Under their feet are the fountains
The night-bird's heart outpours
Flooding the mimic mountains
Of the shadowy sycamores.

Over the sky forever
She leadeth her comrades sweet;
No dream of our mortal fever
Troubleth her straying feet.

She lifteth the years from my shoulders,
She looseth the weight from my wings;
Long hidden from all beholders
An old, sealed fountain sings....

Three of them walk together--
She is the fairest of three;
And sweet as the heavenly weather
She maketh the heart of me!


1919
*diambil dari Blue Smoke karya Karle Wilson Baker