PARDON ME, if in my pride, O maiden of a century, yet to be born, I picture you reading my poems, While the moon fills the gaps in my verse with its shower of silence. I seem to feel your heart throb and hear you murmur, 'If I were alive today and had we met he would love me.' I know you say to yourself, 'Only for this night let me light my lamp for him at my balcony, though I know he may never come.'