Loud the wild heart of any Dryad fleet,

Hearing, she girded her warm side afraid!

For where, against yon hourly-growing wall,

Dull-red, the ailantus-blossoms brighter show,

A little while his weariness forgot,

Outstretching in a chosen shadow small,

With hot wet forehead on his lax arm low,

Swart Labor sleeps, without whom thou wert not!

THE INHERITANCE.