If beasts within a silent forest moan, If trumpets sound, if thunder rolls and cracks, Or young girls sing almost inaudibly- For each initial tone The atmosphere resounds quite suddenly With a response, your own. You listen to the peal of distant thunder, The rumbling voice of violent waves and storm, And hear the village shepherd's lonely cry- And then you send your answer, But hear no echo, there is no reply... This also, poet, is your nature.