‘ Twas just at gnat and cobweb-time,
When yellow begins to show in the leaf,
That your old gamut changed its chime
From those true tones — of span so brief! -
That met my beats of joy, of grief,
As rhyme meets rhyme.
So sank I from my high sublime!
We faced but chancewise after that,
And never I knew or guessed my crime...
Yes;‘ twas the date — or nigh thereat -
Of the yellowing leaf; at moth and gnat
And cobweb-time.