Page:New poems and variant readings, Stevenson, 1918.djvu/152

132 Mid the sound of crackling faggots.

So in dreams the new created

Happy past returns, to-day recedes,

And they hear once more,

From the old years,

Yesterday returns, to-day recedes,

And they hear with aged hearing

warbles

Love's own river ripple in the weeds.

And again the lover's shallop;

Lo, the shallop sheds the streaming weeds;

And afar in foreign countries

In the ears of aged lovers.

And again in winter evens

Starred with lilies ... with stirring weeds.

In these ears of aged lovers

Love's own river ripples in the reeds.

EPITAPHIUM EROTII