That brings from depths of joy, still’d long ago,

A spray as fresh as dash’d from them when first

They stream’d in cataracts. With love like his

To flood its brim, my soul appear’d so full

That, overflowing at each human touch,

Its pleasures could not stagnate.

But, you know

How fly the clouds above us, and in drought

The old springs fail; and long we liv’d apart.

V.