And life is never the same again.

G. MacDonald (Phantastes).


L’ENVOI

There’s a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield

And the ricks stand grey to the sun,

Singing:—“Over then, come over, for the bee has quit the clover

And your English summer’s done.”

You have heard the beat of the off-shore wind

And the thresh of the deep-sea rain;