No life with a creed

That ends all the need

Of knowing or growing in thought or deed.—

Weigh well their worth; true dawnings of light

Can abide your waiting and grow more bright.

Weigh not, you prove the trend of my thought:

Your soul is a slave to be sold and bought.

THE DESTINY-MAKER.

She came; and I who linger’d there,

I saw that she was very fair;