With life’s elixir sparkling high.
T. Moore, Lalla Rookh (“Paradise and the Peri,” 1817).
Jane Eyre, heroine of a novel so called by Currer Bell.
Jane, early and lost love of Ralph Hoyt’s nonogenarian.
“I am fleeing!—all I loved are fled;
Yon green meadow was our place for playing;
That old tree can tell of sweet things said,
When round it Jane and I were straying.
She is dead!
I am fleeing!—all I loved are fled!”