Place the letters, still faintly sweet,

Against the gash in its dark-hued side ...

Its the violin—not Love—that died.

A SKETCH

I HEAR him humming as he drives his car,

In mellow baritone, an ancient psalm—

Drifting down to his subtle modern brain

From his old covenanting ancestors,

Who strode bare-kneed through purple heather bloom,

Praising their God on wind-swept Highland hills.