It sheds a shy solemnity,
This lamp in our poor room.
O grey and gold amenity, —Silence and gentle gloom!
Wide from the world, a stolen
We claim, and none may
How love blooms like a tardy
Here in the day's after-glow.
And even should the world break
With jealous threat and guile,
The world, at last, must bow and
Our pity and a smile.
