XXIX

Once on a time a monarchweary, and old and ill,

wedded—the wretched dotard—a girl all daffodil.

There was a brilliant page-boy—blond, and light and clean.

He carried the silken train ofthe daffodil girl-queen.

YOU know the ancient storysweet—with a fatal touch ?

They died a little later,

because they loved too much.