Their grace they say, his shadow grey
Is instant on the floor—
Humblest of all the dogs there be,
A pensioner of the poor.
COAL AND CANDLELIGHT
... ἔχω δέ τοι ὄσσ' ἑν ὀνείρῳ φαίνονται.—
Theocritus, ix. Idyll.
BEFORE they left their mirth's warm scene
And slept, I heard my children say