Must be your home." Exultant light once more

Leapt, flashing, in the depths of his dark eyes.

Yet Marna looked not up, but, slowly, spake:

"Yea, I must go.... But you...."

Then in dismay

She stopped, as though the thought had slipped unknown

From her full heart; but Oswald caught the words,

And spake with hard, quick speech, as if to baffle

Some doubt that strove within him: "On this Isle

I bide, till God shall kindle my weak soul