Swiftly to thine, in love's ecstatic sway.

XX.

I fondled thee! I drew thee to my heart,

Well knowing in the dark that joy is dumb.

And then a cry, a sigh, a sob, did come

Forth from thy lips.... I waken'd, with a start,

To find thee gone. The day had taken part

Against the total of my blisses' sum.