At some slight wind—best chance of all!

Be your heart henceforth its dwelling-place

You trembled to forestall!

Worth how well, those dark gray eyes,

That hair so dark and dear, how worth

That a man should strive and agonize,

And taste a veriest hell on earth

For the hope of such a prize!

You might have turned and tried a man,

Set him a space to weary and wear,