Fiddler's Farewell/Measure Me, Sky! . . .

by Leonora Speyer

PART VI

Measure me, sky!Tell me I reach by a songNearer the stars;I have been little so long.

Weigh me, high wind!What will your wild scales record?Profit of pain,Joy by the weight of a word.

Horizon, reach out,Catch at my hands, stretch me taut,Rim of the world!Widen my eyes by a thought.

Sky, be my depth,Wind, be my tolerant height,World, my heart's span—Loneliness, wings for my flight!