Like a wide laughter sweet and opportune,

Wet from the fount, three hundred doves of Paul’s

Shook their warm wings, drizzling the golden noon,

And in their rain-cloud vanished up the walls.

“God keeps,” I said, “our little flock of years.”


In the Reading-Room of the British Museum

PRAISED be the moon of books! that doth above

A world of men, the fallen Past behold,