And struggle with her weakness. She had vowed

To give herself to Lion; she was true and proud.

He should not have a woman sick with ghosts,

But one firm-minded to be his; so time

Passed one by one the summer's marking posts,

The dog-rose and the foxglove and the lime.

Then on a day the church-bells rang a chime.

Men fired the bells till all the valley filled

With bell-noise from the belfry where the jackdaws build.

Lion and she were married; home they went,