Classic Poem

Pine-bowered, music-haunted,
Where woods and meadows meet,
By city breath untainted,
Suburban and unvaunted—
July made me acquainted
With lovely Egmont Street.

Fairer than e'er brush painted
Found I that sylvan street,
When thither first I jaunted;
But fairer far your sainted
And radiant face I counted—
Far fairer and more sweet!

October, coldly flaunted,
Forbids that greenwood sweet
Where music swelled and fainted—
But loving thoughts, undaunted,
Shall hold our loss unplainted
Till we again may meet!