Praying: “Dear God, make time go very slow!”

For you I’ve plunged me from calm’s peerless height,

And dwarfed my soul for Envy’s shabby door;

Yet know that I would cry: “Dear God, give more!”

If for the asking I could have to-night

Gold Helens and all dear dead ones’ beauty

Since for your love so little it would be.

XLII

He said when ready for the ball I stood—

Mi esposo—“These gems will you not wear?”