PREMONITION.

He said, “Good-night, my heart is light,

To-morrow morn at day

We two together in the dew

Shall forth and fare away.

“We shall go down, the halls of dawn

To find the doors of joy;

We shall not part again, dear heart.”

And he laughed out like a boy.

He turned and strode down the blue road

Against the western sky

Where the last line of sunset glowed

As sullen embers die.

The night reached out her kraken arms

To clutch him as he passed,

And for one sudden moment

My soul shrank back aghast.