Tears + 

It seems I have no tears left. They should have fallen⁠— + 

Their ghosts, if tears have ghosts, did fall⁠—that day + 

When twenty hounds streamed by me, not yet combed out + 

But still all equals in their rage of gladness + 

Upon the scent, made one, like a great dragon + 

In Blooming Meadow that bends towards the sun + 

And once bore hops: and on that other day + 

When I stepped out from the double-shadowed Tower + 

Into an April morning, stirring and sweet + 

And warm. Strange solitude was there and silence. + 

A mightier charm than any in the Tower + 

Possessed the courtyard. They were changing guard + 

Soldiers in line, young English countrymen, + 

Fair-haired and ruddy, in white tunics. Drums + 

And fifes were playing “The British Grenadiers.” + 

The men, the music piercing that solitude + 

And silence, told me truths I had not dreamed + 

And have forgotten since their beauty passed. + 