VI.

So motionless she sate, The babe asleep upon her knees, You might have dreamed their souls had gone Away to things inanimate, In such to live, in such to moan; And that their bodies had ta'en back, In mystic change, all silences That cross the sky in cloudy rack, Or dwell beneath the reedy ground In waters safe from their own sound: Only she wore The deepening smile I named before, And _that_ a deepening love expressed; And who at once can love and rest?