And now, in love,

In grateful thoughts rejoicing, let us bend

Our footsteps onward to the dell of flowers

Around the ruin’d mansion. Thou, my boy!

Not yet, I deem, hast visited that lorn

But lovely spot, whose loveliness for thee

Will wear no shadow of subduing thought—

No colouring from the past. This way our path

Winds through the hazels. Mark how brightly shoots

The dragon-fly along the sunbeam’s line,