Pines

By Robert James DeBurgh (Poet)

Beneath the Stars my heart cries out for Anne,
Oh most Unworthy Heart that trembles so.
Though she be Beauteous Maid and I mere Man
I look to her as th' Rose to the watering-can.

When first my eyes beheld sweet glorious Anne,
Her darkling eyelids flickering o'er her cheeks,
My Soul leapt up to where the breezes fly,
My thundering Heart beated as hard as it can.

And now my every thought makes up a song,
That causes flowers to issue forth Perfume,
And as th' Pyramid shade grows black and long,
I know my throbbing Heart has not chose wrong.

And so it is on this hill I reclines
And listen to the boom of surf below,
And as my nose is full of the scent of Pines,
My Soul is full of 'Anne', 'Anne', 'Anne' all the time.

Salonika, 1889

NOTE:
This Work is somewhat controversial, in that it has spawned much debate regarding not only the identity of "Anne", but as to the location of DeBurgh at the time of writing.
The internal references within this Work are in conflict. The third stanza refer's to "th' Pyramid shade", so one can only assume the Master was in Egypt. However, the fourth stanza refers to "the boom of surf" and "the scent of Pines", neither of which are particularly prevalent in the region known as 'the Valley of the Kings"!! So where was he??

T. Smegwich once proposed that DeBurgh was "under the influence of the Extended Descartes Principle at the time, and was actually in Giza, and only thought he was somewhere else..... Or was perhaps 'somewhere else' thinking he was in Giza.... Or something..."

B. Svertlovich, the Noted Authority on The Master, however, suggested that Smegwich had been "off his Medication" and therefore shouldn't be taken too seriously.

We may never know the truth.