To ease the aching place!”
[MEETING THE KINGS]
(Suggested by “A Provençal Christmas Postscript,” Thomas A. Janvier)
Long, long ago, in dear Provence, we three!
Three children, ruddy with the midi sun
(And blither none the all-seeing sun might see),
How happy when the harvest-time was done,
The last slow drop from out the winepress run;
And when the frost at morn was thick like snow;