“Hush! I am thinking.

“Hush! I am listening, too.”

She tiptoed through the garden, her fair head

Turning to left and right, with birdlike glances,

Peeping round lichened boulders and clumps of fern.

She passed by the little garden his father gave him,

Elfdom within an elfdom, where he had sown

Not only flowers that rightly grow in gardens,

The delicate aristocracies of bloom,

But hedgerow waifs and ragamuffin strays