Through a long year of happy nights and days.

So unfamiliar in the white moon-gleam,

So old and ghostly like a house of dream

It stood, that over us there stole the dread

That even as we watched it, side by side,

The ghosts of lovers, who had lived and died

Within its walls, were sleeping in our bed.

GOLD

All day the mallet thudded far below

My garret, in an old ramshackle shed