Equalled advantage—sportsman's—statesman's tool?
That brought me down an eagle, this—a fool!"
Into which room on entry, I set down
The lamp, and turning saw whose rustled gown
Had told me my wife followed, pace for pace.
Each of us looked the other in the face.
She spoke. "Since I could die now "...
(To explain
Why that first struck me, know—not once again
Since the adventure at the porphyry's edge