THE MEMORIAL BRASS: 186-

“Why do you weep there, O sweet lady,

Why do you weep before that brass? -

( I'm a mere student sketching the mediaeval )

Is some late death lined there, alas? -

Your father's?... Well, all pay the debt that paid he!”

“Young man, O must I tell!— My husband's! And under

His name I set mine, and my DEATH! -

Its date left vacant till my heirs should fill it,

Stating me faithful till my last breath.”

- “Madam, that you are a widow wakes my wonder!”

“O wait! For last month I — remarried!

And now I fear‘ twas a deed amiss.

We've just come home. And I am sick and saddened

At what the new one will say to this;

And will he think — think that I should have tarried?

“I may add, surely,— with no wish to harm him -

That he's a temper — yes, I fear!

And when he comes to church next Sunday morning,

And sees that written... O dear, O dear!

- “Madam, I swear your beauty will disarm him!”