Should be resurrected only among friends—

Some two or three, who will not touch the bloom

That is rubbed and questioned in the concert room.”

And so the conversation slips

Among velleities and carefully caught regrets,

Through attenuated tones of violins

Mingled with remote cornets,

And begins:

“You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends;

And how, how rare and strange it is, to find,