We think tenderly of tea,

Till our hearts are crushed with longing

Round our steaming cups to be.

(It is only green in mem’ry,

And at times—’twixt you and me—

A malignant grocer sends us

An inferior bohea.)

In the gloaming, O my darlings,

When our hearts are sinking low,

When our mouths are wide with yawning,