Lest either blemish an ensainted ground

Spread so with childhood. Bid with me, outbound,

On recollected wing mine angel drift

Across new spheres of immortality.


VIII.
UNDERTONES AT MAGDALEN.

Fair are the finer creature-sounds; of these

Is Magdalen full: her bees, the while they drop

Susurrant in the garth from weeds atop;