Went scampering amid the tousled brush.

Then bye and bye came on him with a rush

His weakness and the consciousness of pain,

While, with the chill insistence of a rain

That pelts the sodden wreck of Summer’s end,

His manifest betrayal by a friend

Beat in upon him. Jamie had been there;

And Jamie—Jamie—Jamie did not care!

What no man yet had witnessed, the wide sky

Looked down and saw; a light wind idling by