Of sights and sounds—soft sound, the countless hum and skip

Of insects we disturb, and that good fellowship

Of rabbits our footfall sends huddling, each to hide

He best knows how and where; and what whirred past, wings wide?

That was, an owl, their young may justlier apprehend!

Though you refuse to speak, your beating heart, my friend,

I feel against my arm,—though your bent head forbids

A look into your eyes, yet, on my cheek, their lids

That ope and shut, soft send a silken thrill the same.

Well, out of all and each these nothings, comes—what came