(For so you shall forget) a light will soften

Over the evening woods. And in the stir

Of morning dreams (oh, I will teach you, Sir)

There’ll come a sound of wings. Or you shall be

Waked in the midnight murmuring, ‘It was she.’”

22

“No, no,” said Dymer, “not that way. I seem

To have slept for twenty years. Now—while I shake

Out of my eyes that dust of burdening dream,

Now when the long clouds tremble ripe to break