Homesickness

Sweetly lamenting-a crystalline sigh

Out of the old Italian pantomime,

It resonates in our time: Why's Pierrot become

So wooden, so sentimental modern?

And it sounds through his heart's wasteland,

Sounds an undertone through all his senses,

Sweetly lamenting-a crystalline sigh

Out of the old Italian pantomime.

Then Pierrot forgets the mask of tragedy!

Through the moon's pale fireshine,

Through the sea's light-tide-sails his yearning

Bravely forth, heavenward home,

Sweetly lamenting-a crystalline sigh.