Your cool clear brain must needs yield verse-water,

But, sweet strong drunken maniac music, mine.

S. K. Cowan.

From A Book of Jousts. London, Field and Tuer.


A Valentine.

Ah, Love! if love lie still betwixt us twain,

Through all these years—yea, love, before love wane

Lift up thine eyes and slay me; the desire

Of death consumes me, like the sun-god’s fire.