Already nodding o’er his noonday pipe,

Should beck at sever’d dreams with one nod more,

And so consent to our dreams.

Room-mates made,

We slamm’d his door and woke him; not ourselves.

Our dreamland lasted, that is, when we two

Were by ourselves. When more surrounded us—

You know boy-friends are shy: is it a trait,

Their shielding of their hearts, that fits them thus

For life-tilts of their manhood?—How we two