adness.

Shapely ingots are the flowers,
And the waters, amber brightness;
Gold-bright, song-birds in the bowers
Sing with eyes of diamond whiteness.

And she meets me with a chalice
Like the Giamschid ruby burning,
And I drain it without malice,
To her towers of topaz turning.

Many hundred years forgetting
All that's earth: within her power
I possess her: naught regretting
Since each year is as an hour.

AT THE STILE.

Young Harry leapt over the stile and kissed her,
Over the stile the stars a-winking;
He thought it was Mary--'t was Mary's sister--
And love hath a way of thinking.

"Thy pail, sweetheart, I will take and carry."--
Over the stile the stars hang yellow.--
"Just to the spring, my sweetheart Harry."--
And love is a heartless fellow.

"Thou saidst me _yea_ when the frost did shower
Over the stile from stars a-shiver."--
"I say thee _nay_ now the cherry-trees flower,
And love is taker and giver."

"O false! thou art false to me, sweetheart!"--
Over the stile the stars a-glister.
"To thee, the stars, and myself, sweetheart,
I never was aught save Mary's sister.

"Sweet Mary's sister and thou my Harry,
Her Harry and mine, but mine the weeping:
In a month or twain you two will marry--
And I in my grave be sleeping."

Alone among the meadows of millet,
Over the stile the stars pursuing,
Some tears in her pail as she stoops to fill it--
And love hath a way of doing.

THE ALCALDE'S DAUGHTER.

The times they had kissed and parted
That night were over a score;
Each time that the cavalier started,
Each time she would swear him o'er,

"Thou art going to Barcelona!--
To make Naxera thy bride!
Seduce the Lady Yoena!--
And thy lips have lied! have lied!

"I love thee! I love thee, thou knowest!
And thou shalt not give away
The love to my life thou owest;
And my heart commands thee stay!--

"I say thou hast lied and liest!--
For where is there war in the state?--
Thou goest, by Heaven the highest!
To choose thee a fairer mate.

"Wilt thou go to Barcelona
When thy queen in Toledo is?
To wait on the haughty Yoena,
When thou hast these lips to kiss?"

And they stood in the balcony over