summer noons
So I looked again at my lady and Lord Radnor . He had taken her about her waist with one arm , and with the other hand he lifted gently upward her fair face , as doth a gardener a rain-beaten flower , while his eyes looked down into hers . And slowly , slowly , almost as rose-leaves unfurl i ' th ' sun , her white lids curled upward , and her blue eyes peered softly from her yellow locks like corn-flowers through ripe corn , there being a tear in each , as when a rain-bead doth tremble i ' th ' real corn-flowers . And , to be the more like nature , there ran big waves throughout her loosened tresses , like as when the wind doth steal across a field o ' grain on summer noons . Then he bended down his tall head , and their lips met . God alone knows what their first words would a been , for ere the kiss was well ended , down falls the poor little rogue off of the hound 's back , and lifts up his voice loud enow to be heard across the sea by the red men i ' the new continent . And my lady runs and lifts him in her arms .