Once more became visible.

“What causes the juvenile sheep to hanker after Mary so?”

Queried the inquisitive children of their tutor.

“Why, Mary bestows much affection upon the little animal to which the wind is tempered when shorn, you must be aware,”

The preceptor with alacrity responded.

The Meeting

They met; ’twas in the starry depths

Of August’s cloudless sky;

Fair Luna trod her silvery path

In matchless majesty: