Rather too high and distant; that she threw
Her glances on it, and then, longing, flung
Stones and whatever she could pick up, to
Bring down the fruit, which still perversely clung
To its own bough, and dangled yet in sight,
But always at a most provoking height;[HA]
LXXVII.
That on a sudden, when she least had hope,
It fell down of its own accord before
Her feet; that her first movement was to stoop