Two Twilights

<SPAN name="chap024"></SPAN> <h3> KATY DID </h3> <p class="poem"> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">In a windy tree-top sitting,</SPAN><br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 2em">Singing at the fall of dew,</SPAN><br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">Katy watched the bats a-flitting,</SPAN><br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 2em">While the twilight's curtains drew</SPAN><br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">Closer round her; till she only</SPAN><br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 2em">Saw the branches and the sky&mdash;</SPAN><br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">Rocking late and rocking lonely,</SPAN><br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 2em">Anchored on the darkness high.</SPAN><br/> And the song that she was singing,<br/> In the windy tree-tops swinging,<br/> Was <i>under the tree, under the tree</i><br/> <i>The fox is digging a pit for me</i>.<br/></p> <p class="poem"> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">When the early stars were sparkling</SPAN><br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 2em">Overhead, and down below</SPAN><br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">Fireflies twinkled, through the darkling</SPAN><br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 2em">Thickets she heard footsteps go&mdash;</SPAN><br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">Voice of her false lover speaking,</SPAN><br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 2em">Laughing to his sweetheart new:&mdash;</SPAN><br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">"Half my heart for thee I'm breaking:</SPAN><br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 2em">Did not Katy love me true?"</SPAN><br/> Then no longer she was singing,<br/> But through all the wood kept ringing&mdash;<br/> <i>Katy did, Katy did, Katy did love thee</i><br/> <i>And the fox is digging a grave for me</i>.<br/></p> <br/><br/><br/> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />