And honey of delicious memories

Down to the sea, as far as eye could ken,

From verge to verge it was a holy land,

Still growing holier as you near'd the bay,

For where the temple stood. When we had reach'd

The grassy platform on some hill, I stoop'd,

I gather'd the wild herbs, and for her brows

And mine wove chaplets of the self-same flower,

Which she took smiling, and with my work there

Crown'd her clear forehead. Once or twice she told me