Made of the waters, when, shattered his golden crown,

Fell the fair boy as a star, and his sister after,

To the field of the dead, to its cold and the darkness unknown!

Elizabeth Cavazza.

JACK AND JILL

(As Austin Dobson might have written it)

THEIR pail they must fill

In a crystalline springlet,

Brave Jack and fair Jill.

Their pail they must fill