As I had not been thinking of aught for years;

Till over my eyes there began to move

Something that felt like tears.

I thought of the dress that she wore last time,

When we stood neath the cypress-trees together,

In that lost land, in that soft clime,

In the crimson evening weather;

Of that muslin dress (for the eve was hot);

And her warm white neck in its golden chain;

And her full soft hair just tied in a knot,