For the rest, accomplished, upright, — ay,

A wild coast, by circumstances, in a reg

nant ebb and flow.

Thus I knew that voice, I heard it,

and I could not help the hearkening:

In the room I stood up blindly, and my

burning heart within

Seemed to seethe and fuse my senses, till

they ran on all sides darkening,

And scorched, weighed like melted metal round my feet that stood therein.

And that voice, I heard it pleading, for

“Ah, that white hand," he said quickly,

and in his he either drew it

-

Or attempted, for with gravity and in

stance she replied,

"Nay, indeed, my lord, this talk is vain,

and we had best eschew it,

And pass on like friends, to other points

less easy to decide."

What he said again, I know not. It is

likely that his trouble

Worked his pride up to the surface, for

she answered in slow scorn,

"And your lordship judges rightly. Whom

I marry shall be noble,

Ay, and wealthy. I shall never blush to

think how he was born."

There, I maddened! her words stung me! Life swept through me into fever,

And my soul sprang up astonished; sprang

From my brain the soul-wings budded!

Was a man or beast, — perhaps so; for the

tiger roars when speared;