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Show OflLGOl , , , EXPRESSION M w I mm w M mm Qt Irw mm kmm His face fell as he saw her come What wonder that his cheeks were pale And that his heart was cold and numb And that his self-control should fail? His face fell, as we Just have said. As she came on and passed him by And well she knew she turned his head, For then and there she caught his eye. She flung a word at him, she did; He listened to it with a sigh; "Within his hands his face he hid (Perhaps he wanted back his eye!) And then in accents grave and cold He asked: "Can I believe my ears?" No one knows now what his ears told, For they say things no other hears. She swept away, all dignified; He followed her with pleading cry: We do not know just what he cried, But doubtless he wished back his eye; For 'twas a sorry thing, indeed. That such a mishap should occur She'd caught his eye, you see, when he'd Have more than half a look at her. His face fell Ah, what did he care? He did not catch it as it dropped. With such a face for him to wear Small wonder that she never stopped Eut simply went along her way As damsels dignified should pass-She pass-She caught his eye, we pause to say, Much as though it were made of glass. Alas! Because his face thus fell It broke upon the stony ground; The lady turned then, truth to tell. In sorrow at the crashing sound. He prayed that she a dirge should sing For his face crushed upon the sands; She said: "Ah, no, a knell I'll ring," And so she sweetly wrung her hands. |