And then look’d back demurely.

Lo, dimly shown, the moon’s old zone

Made full hope’s crescent new one.

I thought, “Would my old love, made known,

Prove hope of love a true one?—

What would she say?”—I ask’d her soon,

And took her hand to hold her.

“Ah, love,” she sigh’d, “to-night the moon

Is over my right shoulder.”