Which, by long intercourse of hand and brain,

Were specialised to typify and betray

The hiding spirit? There are such secrets here

As dazzle lovers’eyes. She will be mine.

She wrote me a letter once before in scorn,

With studied terms of coldness: yet to me

That seemed—I treasure it still—a lovers’meeting

Of our two names on the same conscious page,

A daring intimacy, her own betrothal.

Was I deceived boasting so crazed a title?