Of formless form and toneless tones,

I might have stepped out of the frame

Of a Rossetti or Burne-Jones.

I stole soft frills from Marcus Stone,

My waist wore Herkomer’s disguise,

My slender purse was strained, I own,

But—my silk lay as Sargent’s lies.

And when you were abroad—in Prague—

’Mid Cherets I had shone, a star;

Then for your sake I grew as vague