Down their golden inches.”

How clearly we see him with that gentlest mistress, bathed in the warm, sweet sunshine of the past! But there were other than sunny days—long, weary days in a sick-room, where—

“This dog only waited on,

Knowing that when light is gone,

Love remains for shining.

“Other dogs in thymy dew

Tracked the hares, and followed through

Sunny moor or meadow—

This dog only crept and crept

Next a languid cheek that slept,