We heard—we knew we heard—the brook.

A note as from a single place,

A slender tinkling fall that made

Now drops that floated on the pool

Like pearls, and now a silver blade.

THE CODE—HEROICS

There were three in the meadow by the brook,

Gathering up windrows, piling haycocks up,

With an eye always lifted toward the west,

Where an irregular, sun-bordered cloud