Come home, my dear, with me.'' 250

"'''I will come, and I will listen,
Fair the night--the moon in Heaven,
Calm the stream with bridge and ferry,
In the wood strong guards.'''"




CHAPTER VII


THE GOVERNOR'S LADY

"I'm hurrying blindly,
I've run through the village;
Yet strangely the singing
From Domina's cottage
Pursues me and rings
In my ears. My pace slackens,
I rest for awhile,
And look back at the village:
I see the white snowdrift
O'er valley and meadow, 10
The moon in the Heavens,
My self, and my shadow....

"I do not feel frightened;
A flutter of gladness