Sweet Selena, I see you have returned,

Your silken smile to light the forest bright;

Perhaps you knew each day my heart has yearned,

Each clouded evening, longing for your sight.

I watch that point above the distant trees

Where you appear much like a cresting sail—

Proud ship of joy come home on scented breeze,

Hope buoyed delight, dear lover’s arms to hail.

Your visage pale above the velvet dark,

Ascending slowly on the purple air

With mien of gilded empress you embark

Upon your journey to some kingdom fair.

I bask in twilight silvered by your grace…

Soft burnished beams that do my soul embrace.