Her melting eyes and face to meet—

(And no one wondered much at that),

For soon the station where she left

Would on the sorrowing vision rise,

And I at least should feel bereft;

I thought a tear stood in her eyes.

She was but kith, not kin of mine;

Ten years had passed since last we met,

And when in going she did incline

Her face ’twas natural to forget,