See warders at each windlass, every rusty chain a-cry;

See a ponderous portcullis rise, a drawbridge downward fly.

Perchance some summer morning and with no one on the wall,

The warders may get orders and the drawbridge swiftly fall.

A wingless one may be the first to stumble on the scene

And vision earth and heaven, with a rustic bridge between.


LOVE

Now Marjory is seven years,