CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

Lenore

The skies they are opal and restless;

The trees they are verdant and gleam—

The trees they are wakening and gleam:

It is noon, in a May young and breathless

Near a pool in the Valley of Dreams:

There are charms in this tarn of the pinelands,

In the misted and mountainous hills:—

It is here ’mid the poplars and pinelands,

Where a poet seeks fate in the hills . . .