All longing and folly, grief, despair,

Daydreams and mysteries.

She stooped her brow; laid low her cheek,

And, steering on that silk-tressed craft,

Out from the listening, leaf-hung creek,

Tossed up her chin, and laughed—

A mocking, icy, inhuman note.

One instant flashed that crystal breast,

Leaned, and was gone. Dead-still the boat:

And the deep dark at rest.