And, as my mem’ry serves me, word for word,

Like this the story ran:

Mark Lysle, a rich,

Eccentric widower, and Maud, his child,

Long years agone, lived in that house[376] whose red

Roof peeps from yonder clump of trees; and though

You see a light, blue plume of smoke above

The chimney top, yet other hearts now sit

About the hearth and watch its glow, for that

Bright fire which blazed when Lysle held sway, died out