The people whispering low amid the aisles;

My heart so loud, nor hush’d in sermon-time;

The multitude with wide eyes fix’d on me;

Doretta, and my father, still and sad;

And Haydn’s face upon his pale, pale hands.

LVII.

And two months after that I saw them wed,

My Haydn and Doretta, in the church.

And, since then, I have pray’d for him long days,

And longer nights; and I have oft had hopes