Snowing the blooms from her finger-tips,

Tossing them down for her feet to tread.

What to her was the look I gave

Of love despised!—Though she seemed to start,

Seeing; and said, with a quick hand-wave,

"Why, one would think that that was your heart,"

While her face with a sudden thought grew grave.

But I answered nothing. And so to her home

We came in the eve; slow-falling, clear

With a few first stars and a crescent of foam,