snap

No cypress, sombre on the snow;

Snap not from the bitter yew

His leaves that live December through;

As he had struck it with an argument

That it is not worth living, snap, the bag

Would fly back for another punch. For life

I water them and turn them south,

I snap the dead brown from the stem;

But it is winter with your love,--

He put the Belt around my life

I heard the Buckle snap --

And turned away, imperial,

And out again when every thing's secure

And start and snap at blackbirds bouncing bye

To fight and catch the great white butterfly.

Till dangerous Beauty came, at last,

Till Beauty came to snap all ties;

The maid, abolishing the past,

Then I tuned my harp--took off the lilies we twine round its chords

Lest they snap 'neath the stress of the noontide--those 35

sunbeams like swords!

He does himself though,--and if some vein

Were to snap tonight in this heavy brain,

To-morrow month, if I lived to try,