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,’