And Maudie forgot her swollen nose
And even her graceful bare brown toes,
And listened while a pleased surprise
Looked from her watering hazel eyes.
At last with a wild “Ah-chee! Ah-cha!
Ah-choo! Ah-choo!” he rode away.
Maud Müller looked and sneezed “Ah-chee!
That I the Judge’s bride might be!
He would dress me with silks and diamond rings
And take me up to the ‘White Mountings,’