Back from Nowhere

For a while I lost my way,

Like a child who's gone astray;

For a day I lived my dreams

Like a boat that flits upstream;

In a trice  broke my cage

With a smile bore world's rage.

For in my night a sun did rise,

From my breast my heart pried,

Alas! A wind of furry blew,

My hopes to ground it threw-

My sun in that mist grew pale,

Weeds wild ran across that dale,

Once more down I sank,

A cup of tears I drank.

Aha! In my garden came

A shower of dripping rain,

My blessings it taught to count,

Undaunted my hills surmount

No more in dream, nor in trance,

To own tune I now dance.