When a Lover hies abroad

Publication

This poem is the heading to Chapter VIII of “The Naulahka”, and is one of the four headings in this book described as from ‘The Libretto of Naulahka (Chorus)’. It is collected in in Songs from Books and later collections as a Chapter Heading.

Notes on the Text

[line 3] Azrael is the Angel of Death in Muslim mythology.

[line 7] and to lesser compass round become smaller so that the distamce is the lesser.

[S.K./P.H.]