And tempted Time with earthly stay.

Her loveliness was not alone

Of face and form and tresses' hue:

For aye a pure, high soul shone through

Her every act: this was Ione.

II

'T was in the radiant summer weather,

When God looked, smiling, from the sky;

And we went wand'ring much together

By wood and lane, Ione and I,