• I warn, like the one drop of rain
    On your face, ere the storm;
    Or tremble in whispered refrain
      With your blood, beating warm.
    I am the presence that ever
    Baffles your touch’s endeavor,—
    Gone like the glimmer of dust
      Dispersed by a gust.
    I am the absence that taunts you,
    The fancy that haunts you;
    The ever...