The advancing foot, and leave the flint-dust fine

Each speck with its fire-sparkle. Presently

The road's end with the sky's beginning mix

In one magnificence of glare, due East,

So high the sun rides,—May 's the merry month.

They slacken pace: the younger stops abrupt,

Discards cigar, looks his friend full in face.

"All right; the station comes in view at end;

Five minutes from the beech-clump, there you are!

I say: let 's halt, let 's borrow yonder gate