And when he died would know me safe—
Oh that I had a brother!”
“A brother! Lily,” soft I said—
As springing to her side
I caught her, like a startled fawn
Just bounding o’er the tide—
“A brother! Lily, sit thee down
And I will be thy brother;
Dost thou not know, since thine is dead,
That thou may’st choose another?”