• Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead!
      Sit and watch by her side an hour.
    That is her book-shelf, this her bed;
      She plucked that piece of geranium-flower,
    Beginning to die too, in the glass.
      Little has yet been changed, I think;
    The shutters are shut,—no light may pass
      Save two long rays through the hinge’s chink.

    Sixteen years...