The Revulsion 153 VIII. THE KOH-I-NOOR 158 Preludes: 1. In Love 158 2. Love Thinking 160 3. The Kiss 161 The Koh-i-noor 161 IX. THE FRIENDS 165 Preludes: 1. The Nursling of Civility 165 2. The Foreign Land 166 3. Disappointment 166 The Friends 167 X. THE EPITAPH 170 Preludes: 1. Frost in Harvest 170 2. Felicity 171 3. Marriage Indissoluble 172 The Epitaph 172 XI. THE WEDDING 176 Preludes: 1. Platonic Love 176 2. A Demonstration 177 3. The Symbol 178 4. Constancy Rewarded 178 The Wedding 179 XII. HUSBAND AND WIFE 183 Preludes: 1. The Married Lover 183 2. The Amaranth 184 Husband and Wife 185 The Epilogue 189 Book I. THE PROLOGUE. 1 ‘MINE is no horse with wings, to gain The region of the spheral chime; He does but drag a rumbling wain, Cheer’d by the coupled bells of rhyme; And if at Fame’s bewitching note My homely Pegasus pricks an ear, The world’s cart-collar hugs his throat, And he’s too wise to prance or rear.’ 2 Thus ever answer’d Vaughan his Wife, Who, more than he, desired his fame; But, in his heart, his thoughts were rife How for her sake to earn a name. With bays poetic three times crown’d, And other college honours won, He, if he chose, might be renown’d, He had but little doubt, she none; And in a loftier phrase he talk’d With her, upon their Wedding-Day, (The eighth), while through the fields they walk’d, Their children shouting by the way. 3