VII. 1. DID I hear it half in a doze Long since, I know not where ? Did I dream it an hour ago, When asleep in this arm-chair? 2. Men were drinking together, Drinking and talking of me ; 'Well, if it prove a girl, the boy Will have plenty : so let it be.' 3. Is it an echo of something Read with a boy's delight, Viziers nodding together In some Arabian night? 4. Strange, that I hear two men, 'Well, if it prove a girl, my boy Will have plenty : so let it be.' VIII. SHE came to the village church, And sat by a pillar alone; An angel watching an urn Wept over her, carved in stone; And but once, once, she lifted her eyes, And suddenly, sweetly, strangely blush'd To find they were met by my own; And suddenly, sweetly, my heart beat stronger And thicker, until I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone; And thought, is it pride, and mused and sigh'd 'No surely, now it cannot be pride.' IX. I WAS walking a mile, More than a mile from the shore, The sun look'd out with a smile And riding at set of day Rapidly riding far away, She waved to me with her hand. There were two at her side, Something flash'd in the sun, Down by the hill I saw them ride, In a moment they were gone: D |