And the merry days so young!

 Beneath the dawn and the bough I heard them arise and go: And my heart it is aching now For the more it will never know. 

I heard them arise and go:

For the more it will never know.

 Why did they two depart Before I could understand? Where lies that land, O my heart? —O my heart, where lies that land? 

Before I could understand?

—O my heart, where lies that land?

II. SATURN

From my farm, from hèr farm Furtively we came. In either home a hearth was warm: We nursed a hungrier flame. 

Furtively we came.

We nursed a hungrier flame.

 Our feet were foul with mire, Our faces blind with mist; But all the night was naked fire About us where we kiss'd. 

Our faces blind with mist;

About us where we kiss'd.

 To her farm, to my farm, Loathing we returned; Pale beneath a gallow's arm The planet Saturn burned. 

Loathing we returned;

The planet Saturn burned.

III. DERELICTION

O'er the tears that we shed, dear The bitter vines twist, And the hawk and the red deer They keep where we kiss'd: All broken lies the shieling That sheltered from rain, With a star to pierce the ceiling, And the dawn an empty pane. 

The bitter vines twist,

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