Henry A Beers

The Two Twilights Henry A Beers

Book Excerpt: ..."Half my heart for thee I'm breaking: Did not Katy love me true?"Then no longer she was singing, But through all the wood kept ringing--_Katy did, Katy did, Katy did love thee__And the fox is digging a grave for me_. NARCISSUSWhere the black hemlock slants athwart the streamHe came to bathe; the sun's pursuing beamLaid a warm hand upon him, as he stoodNaked, while noonday silence filled the wood. Holding the boughs o'erhead, with cautious footHe felt his way along the mossy rootThat edged the brimming pool; then paused and dreamed. Half like a dryad of the tree he seemed, Half like the naiad of the stream below, Suspended there between the water's flowAnd the green tree-top world; the love-sick airCoaxing with softest touch his body fairA little longer yet to be contentOutside of its own crystal element. And he, still lingering at the brink, looked downAnd marked the sunshine flec