Think on that night of love, and realize

Whose was the fault whence grew the parting pain?

And, in her soul, persuading still in vain,

Shall doubt take shape, and all its old surmise

Bid darker phantoms of remorse arise

Trailing the raiment of a dead disdain?

Masks, unto whom shall her avowal yearn

With looks clairvoyant, seeing how each is

A different form with eyes and lips that burn

Into her heart with love's last look and kiss?—