Note 21 — Early Poems

These three stanzas were added in 1842, the following being excised:— Remember you the clear moonlight, That whitened all the eastern ridge, When o’er the water, dancing white, I stepped upon the old mill-bridge. I heard you whisper from above A lute-toned whisper, “I am here”; I murmured, “Speak again, my love, The stream is loud: I cannot hear”. I heard, as I have seemed to hear, When all the under-air was still, The low voice of the glad new year Call to the freshly-flowered hill. I heard, as I have often heard The nightingale in leavy woods Call to its mate, when nothing stirred To left or right but falling floods.