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And brought water, and filled a tub for his sweated
body and bruised feet,
And gave him a room that entered from my own, and
gave him some coarse clean clothes,
And remember perfectly well his revolving eyes and
his awkwardness,
And remember putting plasters on the galls of his
neck and ankles;
He staid with me a week before he was recuperated
and passed north,
I had him sit next me at table—my fire-lock leaned
in the corner.

55.Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore,
Twenty-eight young men, and all so friendly;
Twenty-eight years of womanly life, and all so
lonesome.

56.She owns the fine house by the rise of the bank,
She hides, handsome and richly drest, aft the blinds
of the window.

57.Which of the young men does she like the best?
Ah, the homeliest of them is beautiful to her.

58.Where are you off to, lady? for I see you,
You splash in the water there, yet stay stock still in
your room.

59.Dancing and laughing along the beach came
the twenty-ninth bather,
The rest did not see her, but she saw them and loved
them.