And dark and soft against that rosy depth

A boy and girl stood knee-deep in the ferns.

Dreams of the dead man's youth were in my heart,

Yet I was very glad; and as the moon

Brightened, they kissed; and, linking hand in hand,

Down to their lamp-lit home drifted away.

Under an arch of leaves, into the gloom

I went along the little woodland road,

And through the breathless hedge of hawthorn heard

Out of the deepening night, the long low sigh