What about my Songs?

        The known-unknown-bottomed gossamer waves of the field are colored by the 

traveling shadows of the lonely, orphaned, meadow lark:

        At shadeless noon, sunful-eyed, —the crazy, one-inch butterfly 

(dethroned angel?) roams about, her embodied shadow on the secret-chattering 

hay-tops, in the sabre-light.

        The Universe, too, has somewhere its shadow; —but what about my songs?

        An there be no shadow, no echoing to the end, —my broken-throated 

flute will never again be made whole! 

Noguchi, Yone. The Lark. No. 15. (San Francisco: William Doxey, 1896).  Ed. Kamei, Shunsuke. Yone Noguchi and the Little Magazines of Poetry.                 Collected English Works of Yone Noguchi. (Tokyo: Edition Synapse, 2009).