WITH DRAWINGS R DECORATIONS BY 
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 Miss Annie May Hegeman 
 
 Nov. 5,1937 
 
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Page I, Title page. 
 
 4, Copyright. 
 
 5, Dedication. 
 " 7, Half title. 
 
 9, List of Drawings and Decorations. 
 
 " 13, The Sun Dial. 
 
 " 16, "Tricked in the autumn with the yellow rain. 
 
 " 17, Head Band. 
 
Page 2 1, "Here would the ringdoves linger." 
 
 25, "Folded, inscribed, and niched it in the stone." 
 
 29, "And spied the tiny letter in the nook." 
 
 33, "The single tear that tear-worn eyes will shed." 
 
 37, "Blue-eyed, frank-faced, with clear and open brow. 
 
 41, "Took out the note; — held it as one who feared 
 The fragile thing he held would slip and fall." 
 
 45, "And sauntered past, singing a roundelay." 
 
 47, Finis. 
 
 49, Tail Piece. 
 
is an old dial, dark with many a stain ; 
 In summer crowned with drifting 
 
 orchard bloom, 
 Tricked in the autumn with the yellow 
 rain, 
 And white in winter like a marble tomb; 
 
 ind round about its gray, time -eaten 
 brow 
 Lean letters speak — a worn and 
 shattered row: 
 31 am a ^l^aDe : a ^Ijariotoe too atte tl^ou : 
 
 31 marfie tl^e Cime: jsa^c, ©ojsgfip, tio0t tl^ou mt 
 
iere would the ringdoves linger, head 
 to head ; 
 And here the snail a silver course 
 
 would run, 
 Beating old Time ; and here the 
 peacock spread 
 His gold-green glory, shutting out the sun. 
 
 I he tardy shade moved forward to the 
 noon ; 
 Betwixt the paths a dainty Beauty 
 
 stept, 
 That swung a flower, and, smiling, 
 hummed a tune, — 
 Before whose feet a barking spaniel leapt. 
 
P'er her blue dress an endless blossom 
 About her tendril-curls the sunlight 
 
 shone ; 
 And round her train the tiger-lilies 
 swayed, 
 Like courtiers bowing till the queen be gone. 
 
 he leaned upon the slab a little while, 
 Then drew a jewelled pencil from her 
 
 zone, 
 Scribbled a something with a frolic 
 smile, 
 Folded, inscribed, and niched it in the stone. 
 
rhe shade slipped on, no swifter than 
 the snail ; 
 There came a second lady to the 
 
 place, 
 Dove-eyed, dove-robed, and some- 
 thing wan and pale — 
 An inner beauty shining from her face. 
 
 'he, as if listless with a lonely love, 
 Straying among the alleys with a 
 
 book, — 
 
 Herrick or Herbert, — watched the 
 circling dove. 
 And spied the tiny letter in the nook. 
 
hen, like to one who confirmation 
 found 
 Of some dread secret half-accounted 
 
 true, — 
 
 Who knew what hands and hearts 
 the letter bound. 
 And argued loving commerce 'twixt the two, 
 
 he bent her fair young forehead on the 
 stone ; 
 The dark shade gloomed an instant 
 
 on her head ; 
 And 'twixt her taper-fingers pearled 
 and shone 
 The single tear that tear-worn eyes will shed. 
 
he shade slipped onward to the fall- 
 ing gloom ; 
 There came a soldier gallant in her 
 
 stead, 
 Swinging a beaver with a swaling 
 plume, 
 A ribboned love-lock rippling from his head ; 
 
 |lue-eyed, frank-faced, with clear and 
 open brow, 
 Scar-seamed a little, as the women 
 
 love ; 
 So kindly fronted that you mar- 
 velled how 
 The frequent sword-hilt had so frayed his glove ; 
 
ho switched at Psyche plunging in 
 the sun ; 
 
 Uncrowned three lilies with a back- 
 ward swinge; 
 
 And standing somewhat widely, like 
 to one 
 
 More used to "Boot and Saddle" than to cringe 
 
 [s courtiers do, but gentleman withal, 
 Took out the note; — held it as one 
 
 who feared 
 The fragile thing he held would slip 
 and fall ; 
 Read and re-read, pulling his tawny beard ; 
 
lissed it, I think, and hid it in his 
 breast ; 
 Laughed softly in a flattered happy 
 
 way, 
 
 Arranged the hroidered baldrick on 
 his chest. 
 And sauntered past, singing a roundelay. 
 
 'he shade crept forward through the 
 dying glow; 
 There came no more nor dame nor 
 
 cavalier ; 
 
 But for a little time the brass will 
 show 
 A small gray spot — the record of a tear. 
 
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