THE BLIND HARPER

And so it came that I was led

To wizard walls that haggard hung

Old as their rock, black-mossed and dead,

Wild-swarmed with towers; and, flaming flung

Around them,—far, a moat of red,—

A million poppies sprung.

And here I harped.—All seemed asleep;

Till, hoarse beneath, harsh hinges gnarred