Effaced the date when one chance stab

Of scorn ... if only ghosts might blab!

INAPPREHENSIVENESS

We two stood simply friend-like side by side,

Viewing a twilight country far and wide,

Till she at length broke silence. "How it towers

Yonder, the ruin o'er this vale of ours!

The West's faint flare behind it so relieves

Its rugged outline—sight perhaps deceives,

Or I could almost fancy that I see