That summer-house, for instance, in the wood

Sequestered, name me any place that could

Be more conducive to poetic mood—

Falk.

Let blindness veil the sunlight from mine eyes,

I’ll chant the splendour of the sunlit skies!

Just for a season let me beg or borrow

A great, a crushing, a stupendous sorrow,

And soon you’ll hear my hymns of gladness rise!

But best, Miss Jay, to nerve my wings for flight,