SELECTIONS IN ENGLISH POETRY

Or in the hushing half-light mouse the lane
Long-winged and lordly.

..But when the1 hours' wane,
Indoors they ponder, scared by the harsh storm
Whose pelting saracens onwthe window swarm, 30

And listen for the mail to clatter, past
And church clock's deep bay withering on the blast;
They feed the fire that flings a freakish light
On pictured kings and queens grotesquely bright,
Platters and pitchers, faded calendars ~,

And graceful hour-glass trim with lavenders.

Many a time they kiss and cry, and pray

That both be summoned in the self-same day,

And wiseman linnet tinkling in his cage

End too with them the friendship of old age, . 4$

And all together leave their treasured room

Some bell-like evening when the may's in bloom.

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