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PORTRAIT SONNETS: 2 by HENRY BELLAMANN

First Line: SHE MUST HAVE LIVED SO LONG WITH ONLY TREES
Last Line: NOR CAN SHE TELL US WHAT IT WAS SHE FOUND.
Subject(s): SOLITUDE; TREES; LONELINESS;
She must have lived so long with only trees
For friends, and so have known at last too well
Some certain curious facts she could not tell
To anyone; for she found larger ease
With things that had no faces, and took these
To be a perfect sign of demon spell
That soon or late would break the even hell
Which seemed to be beyond this world's appease.

And now that she has lived a rapture there
Where none of us would venture -- now it seems
Almost as if a greater wisdom crowned
Her every day than favors even rare
Or final moments with its surest gleams;
Nor can she tell us what it was she found.



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