• Three years she grew in sun and shower;
    Then Nature said, “A lovelier flower
      On earth was never sown:
    This child I to myself will take;
    She shall be mine, and I will make
      A lady of my own.

    “Myself will to my darling be
    Both law and impulse; and with me
      The girl, in rock and plain,
    In earth and heaven, in glade and...