To One UnknownAuthor(s): Oscar WilliamsSource: Poetry, Vol. 16, No. 6 (Sep., 1920), p. 300Published by: Poetry FoundationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20572762 .

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POETRY: A Magazine of Verse

UNDER THE SUN

TO ONE UNKNOWN

I pass you by in the public street, O beautiful one, 0 wind of gladness!

You are a call to me, a promise of mystery,

Of delirium and aching madness.

I pass you by in the public street You are a challenge, 0 entrancer!

I am a boy, afraid, and I pass you by, Though my heart is breaking to answer!

I pass you by-but the memory of you Is as a breath from some strange world crying,

As a scent of oranges in the nostrils of the sick, As music in the ears of the dying.

0 MY LOVE

I)o not lose yourself, 0 my love, in song and in music, Or you will be lost like a dewdrop's dream of the morning Swept away by a cataract's myriad-throated rushing. Do not lose yourself in the light words of gay voices, In the drumming of dancing feet, in the loudness of laughter. Do not lose yourself, 0 my love, in song and in music; For only in the silence can love speak to you,

Only in the silence can vou whisper your answer.

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