TO-DAY YOU UNDERSTAND.

You lifted eyes pain-filled to me,

Sad, questioning eyes that did demand

Why I should thrust back, childishly,

The friendship warm you offered me —

Ah, sweet, to-day you understand!

‘ Twas that my heart beat rapturously

At word of thine, at touch of hand,

At tender glance vouchsafed to me

The while I knew it must not be —

Ah, sweet, to-day you understand!

There's neither pain nor mystery

In that far-off and fragrant land

To which you journeyed fearlessly;

By gates of pearl and jasper sea —

Ah, sweet, to-day you understand!