followers to do. While they sympathize, they think how nice it is to be sympathetic; or, if they are women, perhaps the thought is how interesting I look while I am listening to this sad story.” K. “Come now, I believe you have some particular water person in your mind, for you are getting satirical. It is well we are nearly home. What I can’t understand is, why all the four complexions have so much that is disagreeable in them. In which class would Böhme put really good and noble people?” “They might come into any one of the four classes. You must remember that according to Böhme the temperament is an outer material atmosphere surrounding the soul, and of necessity partly evil, because it is material; the pure soul has to work through it, and conquer it, according to Böhme.” p. 92SKETCHES. p. 92 (In a Garden.) A LADY.—A POET. The Lady. The Lady I. Sir POET, ere you crossed the lawn (If it was wrong to watch you, pardon) Behind this weeping birch withdrawn, I watched you saunter round the garden. I saw you bend beside the phlox; Pluck, as you passed, a sprig of myrtle, Review my well-ranged hollyhocks, Smile at the fountain’s slender spurtle; Sir POET II. You paused beneath the cherry-tree, Where my marauder thrush was singing, Peered at the bee-hives curiously, And narrowly escaped a stinging; And then—you see I watched—you passed Down the espalier walk that reaches Out to the western wall, and last Dropped on the seat before the peaches. III. What was your thought? You waited long. Sublime or graceful,—grave,—satiric? A Morris Greek-and-Gothic song? A tender Tennysonian lyric? p. 93Tell me. That garden-seat shall be, So long as speech
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