I see you stand conversing, each new face,

Either in fields, of yellow summer eves,

On islets yet unnamed amid the sea;

Or pace for shelter 'neath a portico

Out of the crowd in some enormous town

Where now the larks sing in a solitude;

Or muse upon blank heaps of stone and sand

Idly conjectured to be Ephesus:

And no one asks his fellow any more

'Where is the promise of his coming?' but