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You wrote	A
Come over to Saugatuck	B
And be with me on the warm sand	C
And under cool beeches and aromatic cedars	D
And just then no one could do a thing in the city	E
For the lure of far places and something that tugged	F
At one's heart because of a June sky	B
And stretches of blue water	G
And a warm wind blowing from the south	H
What could I do but take a boat	A
And go to meet you	I
	-
And when to day is not enough	J
But you must live to morrow also	K
And when the present stands in the way	L
Of something to come	M
And there is but one you would see	E
All the interval of waiting is a wall	N
And so it was I walked the landward deck	B
With flapping coat and hat pulled down	O
And I sat on the leeward deck and looked	P
At the streaming smoke of the funnels	Q
And the far waste of rhythmical water	G
And at the gulls flying by our side	R
	-
There was music on board and dancing	B
But I could not take part	S
For above all there was the bluest sky	B
And around us the urge of magical distances	T
And just because you were in the violins	U
And in everything and were wholly the world	V
Of sense and sight	W
It was too much One could not live it	X
And make it all his own	Y
It was too much	Z
And I wondered where the rest could be going	B
Or what they thought of water and sky	B
Without knowing you	I
	-
But at four o'clock there was a rim	A2
A circled edge of rainbow color	G
Which suspired widened and narrowed under your gaze	B2
It was the phantasy of straining eyes	C2
Or land and it was land	C
It was distant trees	D2
And then it was dunes bluffs of yellow sand	C
We began to wonder how far it was	E2
Five miles or ten miles	F2
Surely only five miles	F2
But at last whatever it was we swung to the end	G2
We rounded the lighthouse pier	H2
Almost before we knew	I
We slowed our speed in a dizzy river of black	B
We drifted softly to dock	B
	-
I took the ferry	E
I crossed the river	G
I ran almost through the little batch	I2
Of fishermen's shacks	J2
I climbed the winding road of the hill	K2
And dove in a shadowy quiet	L2
Of paths of moss and dancing leaves	M2
And straight stretched limbs of giant pines	N2
On patches of sky	B
I ran to the top of the bluff	J
Where the lodge house stood	O2
And there the sunlit lake burst on me	E
And wine like air	P2
And below me was the beach	Q2
Where the serried lines of hurrying water	G
Came up like rank on rank of men	R2
And fell with a shout on the rocks	S2
I plunged I stumbled I ran	T2
Down the hill	K2
For I thought I saw you	I
And it was you you were there	P2
And I shall never forget your cry	B
Nor how you raised your arms and cried	R
And laughed when you saw me	E
And there we were with the lake	B
And the sun with his ruddy search light blaze	B2
Stretching back to lost Chicago	K
The sun the lake the beach and ourselves	U2
Were all that was left of Time	V2
All else was lost	W2
	-
You were making a camp	X2
You had bent from the bank a cedar bough	Y2
And tied it down	O
And over it flung a quilt of many colors	D
And under it spread on the voluptuous silt	Z2
Gray blankets and canvas pillows	A3
I saw it all in a glance	B3
And there in dread of eyes we stood	O2
Scanning the bluff and the beach	Q2
Lest in the briefest touch of lips	C3
We might be seen	D3
	-
For there were eyes or we thought	E3
There were eyes on the porch of the lodge	F3
And eyes along the forest's rim on the hill	K2
And eyes on the shore	G3
But a minute past there was no sun	H3
Only a star that shone like a match which lights	I3
To a blue intenseness amid the glow of a hearth	J3
And we sat on the sand as dusk came down	O
In a communion of silence and low words	K3
Till you said at last We'll sup at the lodge	F3
Then say good night to me and leave	L3
As if to stay overnight in the village	M3
But instead make a long detour through the wood	O2
And come to the shore through that ravine	D3
Be here at the tent at midnight	W
	-
And so I did	N3
I stole through echoless ways	B2
Where no twigs broke and where I heard	O3
My heart beat like a watch under a pillow	K
And the whippoorwills were singing	B
And the sound of the surf below me	E
Was the sound of silver poplar leaves	M2
In a wind that makes no pause	P3
I hurried down the steep ravine	D3
And a bat flew up at my feet from the brush	Q3
And crossed the moon	R3
To my left was the lighthouse	S3
And black and deep purples far away	L
And all was still	K2
Till I stood breathless by the tent	T3
And heard your whispered welcome	M
And felt your kiss	U3
	-
Lovers lay at mid night	W
On roofs of Memphis and Athens	V3
And looked at tropical stars	W3
As large as golden beetles	Q
Nothing is new save this	U3
And this is always new	I
And there in your tent	T3
With the balm of the mid night breeze	D2
Sweeping over us	X3
We looked at one great star	Y3
Through a flap of your many colored tent	T3
And the eternal quality of rapture	G
And mystery and vision flowed through us	X3
	-
Next day we went to Grand Haven	H3
For my desire was your desire	G
Whatever wish one had the other had	Z3
And up the Grand River we rowed	A4
With rushes and lily pads about us	X3
And the sand hills back of us	X3
Till we came to a quiet land	C
A lotus place of farms and meadows	A3
And we tied our boat to Schmitty's dock	B
Where we had a dinner of fish	B4
And where after resting to follow your will	K2
We drifted back to Spring Lake	B
And under a larger moon	R3
Now almost full	C4
Walked three miles to The Beeches	A3
By a winding country road	A4
Where we had supper	G
And afterwards a long sleep	D4
Waking to the song of robins	A3
	-
And that day I said	E4
There are wild places blue water pine forests	A3
There are apple orchards and wonderful roads	A3
Around Elk Lake shall we go	K
And we went for your desire was mine	F4
And there we climbed hills	A3
And ate apples along the shaded ways	A3
And rolled great boulders down the steeps	A3
To watch them splash in the water	G
And we stood and wondered what was beyond	G4
The farther shore two miles away	L
And we came to a place on the shore	G3
Where four great pine trees stood	O2
And underneath them wild flowers to the edge	H4
Of sand so soft for naked feet	I4
And here for not a soul was near	H2
We stripped and swam far out laughing rejoicing	B
Rolling and diving in those great depths	A3
Of bracing water under a glittering sun	H3
	-
There were farm houses enough	J
For food and shelter	G
But something urged us on	J4
One knows the end and dreads the end	G2
Yet seeks the end	G2
And you asked Is there a town near	H2
Let's see a town	O
So we walked to Traverse City	E
Through cut over land and blasted	K4
Trunks and stumps of pine	F4
And by the side of desolate hills	A3
But when we got to Traverse City	E
You were not content nor was I	B
Something urged us on	J4
Then you thought of Northport	E
And of its Norse and German fishermen	L4
And its quaint piers where they smoke fish	B4
So we drove for thirty miles	A3
In a speeding automobile	M4
Over hills around sudden curves into warm coverts	A3
Or hollows sometimes at the edge of the Bay	L
Again on the hill	K2
From where we could see Old Mission	H3
Amid blues and blacks across a score of miles of the Bay	L
Waving like watered silk under the moon	R3
And by meadows of clover newly cut	E
And by peach orchards and vineyards	A3
But when we came to the little town	O
Already asleep though it was but eight o'clock	B
And only a few drowsy lamps	A3
With misty eyelids shone from a store or two	I
I said Do you see those twinkling lights	A3
That's Northport Point that's the Cedar Cabin	H3
Let's go to the Cedar Cabin	H3
And so we crossed the Bay	L
Amid great waves in a plunging launch	N4
And a roaring breeze and a great moon	R3
For now the moon was full	C4
	-
So here was the Cedar Cabin	H3
On a strip of land as wide as a house and lawn	O4
And on one side Lake Michigan	H3
And on one side the Bay	L
There were distances of color all around	E
And stars and darknesses of land and trees	A3
And at the point the lighthouse	A3
And over us the moon	R3
And over the balcony of our room	P4
All of these where we lay till I slept	E
Listening to the water of the lake	B
And the water of the Bay	L
And we saw the moon sink like a red bomb	Q4
And we saw the stars change	R4
As the sky wheeled	E
Now this was the end of the earth	S4
For this strip of land	E
Ran out to a point no larger than one of the stumps	A3
We saw on the desolate hills	A3
And moreover it seemed to dive under	G
Or waste away in a sudden depth of water	G
And around it was a swirl	T4
To the north the bounding waves of the Lake	B
And to the south the Bay which seemed the Lake	B
But could we speak of it even though	K
I saw your eyes when you thought of it	E
A sigh of wind blew through the rustic temple	U4
When we saw this symbol together	G
And neither spoke	B
But that night somewhere in the beginning of drowsiness	A3
You said There is no further place to go	K
We must retrace	A3
And I awoke in a torrent of light in the room	P4
Hearing voices and steps on the walk	B
I looked for you	I
But you had arisen	H3
Then I dressed and searched for you	I
But you were gone	O4
Then I stood for long minutes	A3
Looking at a sail far out at sea	A3
And departed too	I