A Moment's Halt

Anna Alice Chapin (1880–1920)

... Day, my holiday, if thou ill usestMe, who am only Pippa—old year's sorrow,Cast off last night, will come again to-morrow.

“A Moment's Halt—a momentary tasteOf Being from the Well amid the Waste—And Lo!—the phantom Caravan has reach'dThe Nothing it set out from——”