Nor heard the Summer pass importunate.

Ah, Love, can we forgive thy loitering?

The golden Summer, as a dream foregone

Is changed—till in our eyes the ashen dawn

Of Autumn kindles.**** We have heard thy wing

But with a sound of sighing; heart on heart,

In our own sighs we hear thy wing depart.


THE ABSENCE OF THE MUSE

O, Muse, where lingerest thou? In any land