Which meant relief, and friendship. What we said
So lightly, never touched upon the dead,
Yet we both knew that when we laughed we cursed
The bitter God who could make laughter too,
Beside this sorrow. Strange, we did not stare
Mute sympathy: I only smiling sought
To show I knew how bitterly was bought
Your cheerful beauty. But I turned my chair,
Once, when you laughed——, and looked away from you.
D. G. CARTER.