XIV.

Ah no, my Lady! though I sang to thee

With fuller voice than sings the nightingale—

Fuller and softer in the moonlight pale

Than lays of Keats, or Shelley, or the free

And fire-lipp'd Byron—there would come to me

No word of thine to thank me for the tale.

XV.

Thou would'st not heed. Thou would'st not any-when,