Herself among them, on long swaying boughs,

Mesmerised, and all dumbly staring down

With horrible fascination at great eyes,

Green moons of cruelty, steadily smouldering,

In depths that—smelt of tigers; or the salts

Unstoppered by the vicar’s wife in front.

Smile at Eliza Pym with Shadow-of-a-Leaf;

But only if your inward sight can see

Her memories, too—a child’s uplifted face,

The clean white cot, the fluttering nursery fire;