"Mary is there," he moaned, "and I am outward bound.

"I never saw this place so beautiful,

Never like this. I never saw it glow.

Spirit is on this place; it fills it full.

So let the die be cast; I will not go.

But I will see her face to face and know

From her own lips what thoughts she has of me;

And if disaster come: right; let disaster be."

Back, by another way, he turned. The sun

Fired the yew-tops in the Roman woods.