The lanes, you know, were white with May, 130 I knew you could not look but well; And dews, that would have fall'n in tears, I kiss'd away before they fell. 150 A trifle, sweet! which true love spells— For all the spirit is his own. 190 Look thro' mine eyes with thine. True wife, My other dearer life in life, Look thro' my very soul with thine! Untouch'd with any shade of years, May those kind eyes forever dwell! They have not shed a many tears, Dear eyes, since first I knew them well. 200 205 210 215 220 The woven arms, seem but to be Weak symbols of the settled bliss, The comfort, I have found in thee: But that God bless thee, dear who wrought Two spirits to one equal mind — With blessings beyond hope or thought, With blessings which no words can find, Arise, and let us wander forth, To yon old mill across the wolds; THE PASSING OF ARTHUR. THAT story which the bold Sir Bedivere, For on their march to westward, Bedivere, Who slowly paced among the slumbering host, Heard in his tent the moanings of the King: 235 240 245 5 I found Him in the shining of the stars, 6 Then, ere that last weird battle in the west ΙΟ 15 20 25 30 35 And fainter onward, like wild birds that change Their season in the night and wail their way From cloud to cloud, down the long wind the dream 40 Shrill'd; but in going mingled with dim cries Far in the moonlit haze among the hills, As of some lonely city sack'd by night, When all is lost, and wife and child with wail Pass to new lords; and Arthur woke and call'd, Who spake? A dream. O light upon the wind. 45 |