the young

man sitting

in Dick Mid's Place

said to Death

teach me of her

Thy yonder servant who

in Thy very house silently

sits looking beyond the

kissing and the striving of

that old man who at her

redstone mouth renews his

childhood

and He

said

"willingly

for the tale is short

it was

i think yourself delivered into

both my hands herself to

always keep"

always?

the young

man sitting in Dick Mid's

Place

asked

"always"

Death

said

"then as i recollect her

girlhood was by the kindly

lips and body fatherly of a

romantic tired business man

somewhat tweaked and dinted

then

did my servant

become of the company of those

ladies with faces painteaten

and bodies lightly

desperate certainly wherefrom

departed is youth's indispensable

illusion"