I said I "spoke in such amaze

I could not choose words that belong

To such occasions." Here he smiled,

To cover one low, quick-drawn sigh:

"June eves disturb us differently,"

He said, at length; "and I, beguiled

By something in the air, did do

My Lady Maud unmeant offence;

And, what is stranger far, she too,

Under the baleful influence