That they had plagu’d a sleepy one,

Yet screaming in their happy laughter,

Lest I should up, and follow after.

LXXIX.

I could not stir—I heard them run,

Two rosy children, full of fun:

And now I knew the bright blue eye,

The ruddy lip that kiss’d me nigh,

The voice that woke, the flaxy curl,

Were all a dear beloved girl,