Drowsed with a draught of Beauty seemed the land,

As it had raised a golden cup to lip;

But you embodied Spring,

Its harvest hopes, its deeds in joyance planned,

Its brave adventuring.

III

I can recall your buoyance,—can recall

The star-sown hours beneath the Cambridge trees,

When o’er us wheeled the bright processional

Of bold Orion and the Pleiades,