England and Yesterday

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>OF JOAN’S YOUTH.</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">I would unto my fair restore</div> <div class="verse">A simple thing:</div> <div class="verse">The flushing cheek she had before!</div> <div class="verse">Out-velveting</div> <div class="verse">No more, no more,</div> <div class="verse">By Severn shore,</div> <div class="verse">The carmine grape, the moth’s auroral wing.</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">Ah, say how winds in flooded grass</div> <div class="verse">Unmoor the rose;</div> <div class="verse">Or guileful ways the salmon pass</div> <div class="verse">To sea, disclose;</div> <div class="verse">For so, alas,</div> <div class="verse">With Love, alas,</div> <div class="verse">With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes.</div> </div></div> </div> <hr> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />