Each, like a semicircle with stretched arms,

Joining the other round her preciousness—

Two walls that go about a garden-plot

Where a chance sliver, branchlet slipt from bole

Of some tongue-leaved eye-figured Eden tree,

Filched by two exiles and borne far away,

Patiently glorifies their solitude,—

Year by year mounting, grade by grade surmount

The builded brick-work, yet is compassed still,

Still hidden happily and shielded safe,—