And whether Death must sever me from you.

Ah, hush! A spirit moves abroad, whose veil

The poets would give all the world to raise,

But, failing, tell some wistful fairy-tale,

And laugh, and weep, and go their several ways.

The birds are sleeping: nay, I do not know

What's in the twilight, makes my heart beat so!


VERA M. BRITTAIN