The old lost April-coloured lane,

That leads me from myself; for, at a whisper,

Where the strong limbs thrust in vain,

At a breath, if my heart help another heart,

The path shines out for me again.

A thin thread, a rambling lane for lovers

To the light of the world's one May,

Where the white dropping flakes may wet our faces

As we lift them to the bloom-bowed spray:

O Master, shall we ask Thee, then, for high-roads,