I WAITED BY A STREAM OF GREEN WATER THAT RAN THROUGH A SANDY DESERT

by: Elsa Barker (1869-1954)

      WAITED by a stream of green water that ran through a sandy desert.
      A traveller asked what I waited for, but I could not answer him.
      Surely one may wait, without waiting for some thing!
      Must even peace have a purpose?
      It was quiet beside the green water; the palm-trees waved in the distance, for the wind was rising.
      The traveller passed on, but his question remained with me.
      What was I waiting for? I really yearned to know.
      When one is happy it is foolish to listen to the idle questions of over-busy strangers.

"I Waited by a Stream of Green Water that Ran Through a Sandy Desert" is reprinted from Songs of a Vagrom Angel. Elsa Barker. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1916.

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