Play on through time beneath the eyes of God.


RETROSPECT

“Backward,” he said, “dear heart, I like to look

To those half-spring, half-winter days, when first

We drew together, ere the leaf-buds burst.

Sunbeams were silver yet, keen gusts yet shook

The boughs. Have you remembered that kind book

That for our sake Galeotto’s part rehearsed,

(The friend of lovers,—this time blessed, not cursed!)