Such fatherhood, and made

Of murmurous immortality a cargo and a trade.”

For the hewn oak a century fair,

A wound in earth, an ache in air.

And I said: “No pillared height

With a summer daïs over,

Where a dryad fled her lover

Through the long arcade of light;

Nor ’neath Arcturus rolleth more,

Since the loud leaves are gone,