Within the magic cirque of memory,

Invisible but deathless, waiting still

The edict of the will to reassume

The semblance of those rare realities

Of which they were the mirrors. Now the light,

Which was their life, burst through the cloud of thought

Keen, irrepressible.

It was a room

Within the summer-house of which I spoke,

Hung round with paintings of the sea, and one