And yet by time unstaled.'

Smiling, aloof, she turned her narrow head,

'Make thou my face thy glass,' she cried and said.

'What would'st thou see therein—thine own, or mine?

O foolish one, what wonder thou did'st pine?

Long thou hast loved me; yet hast absent been.

See now: Dark night hath pressed an entrance in.

Jealous! thou dear? Nay, come; by taper's beam

Share thou this pictured Joy with me, though nought but a dream.'

THE QUIET ENEMY