THE SURPRISE. Joy met Sorrow in a place "Why art here?" Joy, startled, cried; 66 Why art here?” gray Sorrow sighed. "I came here to weep," said Joy. Joy sat down at Sorrow's feet, Nay? Then tarry yet a while, Since that hour the two have been Bound as by mysterious kin; 46 THE SURPRISE. Since that hour they so exchange A HUMMING-BIRD. SOMEWHERE I've seen thee, strange sprite, Among the wild broods of the night Thou with a silent throat Dost busily rifle all blooms; Is the bee's song shed from thy plumes! Whisper those things in my ear, Aha! is it so? By these eyes, Prospero's servant I see, Ariel clad in the guise Of a humming-bird lightsome and free! THE WRECKER. OUT, out, ye gnashing, hungry pack, From main to main ye coursing go, Is it Iberian grapes ye bring, Or slender length of Indian cane? Ye will not bring me these to-day? I build my boat, a fisher's smack; With what the waves have yielded back, The timbers from your vessels drawn. I build THE WRECKER. my house on seaboard ground, I build it well with far-brought trees; With blanchèd drift made smooth and round To whom should I a salvage pay? Το you who drank the mortal deep, Whose craving hands reach through the spray, 49 |