The sunshine of the afternoon is gone.

Let us go in. It draws near time to sup

—I hate the garden till the moon is up.”

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They passed from the hot lawn into the gloom

And coolness of the porch: then, past a door

That opened with no noise, into a room

Where green leaves choked the window and the floor

Sank lower than the ground. A tattered store

Of brown books met the eye: a crystal ball: