Then came rare Recollection, with a mouth

Sweet as the honeyed sunbeams of the South

Trickling thro' perplexed ripples of low leaves;

To whose faint form a veil of starshine cleaves

Intricate gauze from memoried eyes to feet;—

Feet sandaled with crushed, sifted snows and fleet

To come and go and airy anxiously.

She, trembling to her, like a flower a bee

Nests in and makes an audible mouth of musk

Dripping a downy language in the dusk,