At star-points in the sky, but own’d no more.

IX.

Doretta in the year had grown so fair

That, in her first ripe flush of maidenhood,

I did not wonder, while I watch’d his eyes,

My Haydn’s eyes, that he could crave the fruit.

And intimate they were. Right merrily

Through all the house I heard their voices chime.

But me our Haydn did not seem to know;

So quiet was he, and reserved with me.