THE OLD LOVERS OFFERING ONE ANOTHER THE BEAUTY STONE.

Simon.

I would see a maid who dwells in Zolden—

Her eyes are soft as moonlight on the mere;

The spring hath fled, the ripened year turns golden—

Shall I win her ere the waning of the year?

The reaping-folk pass homeward by the fountain;

What is it then that calls me from the dell,