DIS ALITER VISUM; OR, LE BYRON DE NOS JOURS. 1. STOP, let me have the truth of that! Ten years ago when both of us Met on a morning, friends-as thus We meet this evening, friends or what? 2. Did you because I took your arm And sillily smiled, "A mass of brass That sea looks, blazing underneath!" While up the cliff-road edged with heath, We took the turns nor came to harm— 3. Did you consider "Now makes twice 4. "Reads verse and thinks she understands; Loves all, at any rate, that 's great, Good, beautiful; but much as we Down at the Bath-house love the sea, Who breathe its salt and bruise its sands: 5. "While.. do but follow the fishing-gull That flaps and floats from wave to cave! There's the sea-lover, fair my friend! What then? Be patient, mark and mend! Had you the making of your scull ?” 6. And did you, when we faced the church Where a few graveyard crosses are, 7. Did you determine, as we stepped O'er the lone stone fence, "Let me get Her for myself, and what 's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth— Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? 8. "Schumann 's our music-maker now; Has his march-movement youth and mouth? Ingres 's the modern man that paints; Which will lean on me, of his saints? Heine for songs; for kisses, how ?" 9. And did you, when we entered, reached Safe-smiling at old hopes and fears,— 10. Resolving "Fools we wise men grow! Yes, I could easily blurt out curt Some question that might find reply As prompt in her stopped lips, dropped eye, And rush of red to cheek and brow: E |