The story ever new though old.

You did not look away, but met

My eyes with eyes whose lids were wet

With tears of truth; and you did lean

Your cheek to mine, my Geraldine.—

I never dreamed you would forget.

The night-wind and the water sighed:

And through the leaves, that stirred above,

The moonbeams swooned with music of

The dance—soft things in league with love: