L + 

“Sire, this is Bertha Pearl’s neat handywork, + 

Her name, see here, Midsummer, ninety-one’⁠— + 

Elfinan snatch’d it with a sudden jerk, + 

And wept as if he never would have done, + 

Honouring with royal tears the poor homespun; + 

Whereon were broider’d tigers with black eyes, + 

And long-tailed pheasants, and a rising sun, + 

Plenty of posies, great stags, butterflies + 

Bigger than stags⁠—a moon⁠—with other mysteries. + 