And while her perfume clung to You from head to feet all through the day

That You can change the things for which we care,

But even You, unless You kill us, not the way.

This, then was peace for her, but passion too.

I wonder was it like a kiss that once I knew,

The only one that I would care to take

Into the grave with me, to which if there were afterwards, to wake.

Almost as happy as the carven dead

In some dim chancel lying head by head

We slept with it, but face to face, the whole night through—