I fall to work and song again, and let Honora pass.


IN A RUIN, AFTER A THUNDERSTORM.

Keep of the Norman, old to flood and cloud!

Thou dost reproach me with thy sunset look,

That in our common menace, I forsook

Hope, the last fear, and stood impartial proud:

Almost, almost, while ether spake aloud,

Death, from the smoking stones, my spirit shook

Into thy hollow as leaves into a brook,