THE STAR DREAMER
BOOK IV
Haunted by the starry head
Of her whose gentle will has changed my faith
And made my life a perfumed altar flame.
Tennyson (Maud)
CHAPTER I
AH ME, THE MIGHT-HAVE-BEEN!
I cry to vacant chairs and widowed walls,
My house is left unto me desolate.
—Tennyson (Aylmer’s Field).