Whenever he touches the broken latch,

He thinks: “How often she asked me,

And how careless I was not to mend it!”

And smiles and sighs; then recalls

How we planted the box-border together,

Knee to knee in the wet, one November ...

And the clove-pinks—

Here is the window.

They’ve put the green lamp on the table,

Where his books lie, heaped as of old—