It was ages ago in life's first wonder  
  I found you, Virgilia, wild sea-heart;  
  And 'twas ages ago that we went asunder,  
  Ages and worlds apart. Your luminous face and your hair's dark glory,  
  I knew them of old by an ocean-stream,  
  In a far, first world now turned to story,  
  Now faded back to dream.
I - The Shoes of Happiness, and Other Poems (1913) - The Crowning Hour























