ROMANCE

Thus have I pictured her:—In Arden old

A white-browed maiden with a falcon eye,

And rose-flushed face, and locks of wind-blown gold,

Teaching her hawks to fly.

Or, 'mid her boar-hounds, panting with the heat,

In huntsman green, she sounds the hunt's wild prize,

Plumed, dagger-belted, while beneath her feet

The spear-pierced monster dies.