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''There! See the line of lights,'' A chain of stars down either side the street— Why can't you lift the chain and give it to me, ''A necklace for my throat? I'd twist it round'' ''And you could play with it. You smile at me'' As though I were a little dreamy child ''Behind whose eyes the fairies live. . . . And see,'' The people on the street look up at us ''All envious. We are a king and queen,'' Our royal carriage is a motor bus, ''We watch our subjects with a haughty joy. . . . How still you are! Have you been hard at work'' ''And are you tired to-night? It is so long'' Since I have seen you—four whole days, I think. My heart is crowded full of foolish thoughts Like early flowers in an April meadow, And I must give them to you, all of them,