When along the pavement,
Palpitating flames of life,
People flicker round me,
I forget my bereavement,
The gap in my life’s constellation,
The place where a star used to be.
Nay, though the pole-star
Is blown out like a candle,
And all the heavens are wandering in disarray,
Yet when pleiads of people are
Deployed around me, and I see
The street’s long, outstretched milky-way!
When people flicker down the pavement
I forget my bereavement.