Trusty, dusky, vivid, true,

And (O strange chance, more sorrowful than sweet)The counterfeit of her that was my fate,Dressed in like vesture, graceful and sedate,Went quietly up the vacant village street,The still small sound of her most dainty feetShook, like a trumpet blast, my soul’s estate.Instant revolt ran riot through my brain,And all night long, thereafter, hour by hour,The…

And high overhead and all moving about,There were thousands of millions of stars.There ne’er were such thousands of leaves on a tree,Nor of people in church or the Park,As the crowds of the stars that looked down upon me,And that glittered and winked in the dark.The Dog, and the Plough, and the Hunter, and all,And…

Tho’ where you learned your music, not the God of song can tell,For you pipe the open highway and the sea.O piper, lightly footing, lightly piping on your way,Tho’ your music thrills and pierces far and near,I tell you you had better pipe to someone else to-day,For you cannot pipe my fancy from my dear.You…

And behave mannerly at table;At least as far as he is able.

While, skipper-like, his course he steersThrough nine and twenty mingled years,Half misconceived and half forgot,So much I know and practise not.Old are the words of wisdom, oldThe counsels of the wise and bold:To close the ears, to check the tongue,To keep the pining spirit young;To act the right, to say the true,And to be kind…