Of Winter, Summer, and of Night and Day.

Still to the task a reasoning power she brought,

And followed, slowly followed with the thought;

How beautiful it was to see the stir

Of natural wonder waking thus in her;

But loth was he to set on books to pore

An intellect so charming in the ore.

And she, perhaps, had comprehended soon

Even the nodes, so puzzling, of the moon;

But nearing now the Mull they met the gale