Nor care to pry into the cool o' the cave.

Outside was all noon and the burning blue.

"Here is wine," answered Xanthus,—dropped a drop;

I stooped and placed the lap of cloth aright,

Then chafed his right hand, and the Boy his left:

But Valens had bethought him, and produced

And broke a ball of nard, and made perfume.

Only, he did—not so much wake, as—turn

And smile a little, as a sleeper does

If any dear one call him, touch his face—