` We talked together of times past . That is all men can do when they grow old , little maid . ' The bell for tea rang faintly across the meadows . Dan lay in the bows of the Golden Hind ; Una in the stern , the book of verses open in her lap , was reading from ` The Slave 's Dream ' : ` Again , in the mist and shadow of sleep , He saw his native land . ' ' I do n't know when you began that , ' said Dan , sleepily . On the middle thwart of the boat , beside Una 's sun-bonnet , lay an Oak leaf , an Ash leaf , and a Thorn leaf , that must have dropped down from the trees above ; and the brook giggled as though it had just seen some joke . THE RUNES ON WELAND 'S SWORD A Smith makes me To betray my Man In my first fight . To gather Gold At the world 's end I am sent . The Gold I gather Comes into England Out of deep Water . Like a shining Fish Then it descends Into deep Water . It is not given For goods or gear , But for The Thing . The Gold I gather A King covets For an ill use . The Gold I gather Is drawn up Out of deep Water . Like a shining Fish Then it descends Into deep Water . It is not given For goods or gear , But for The Thing . A CENTURION OF THE THIRTIETH Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time 's eye , Almost as long as flowers , Which daily die . But , as new buds put forth To glad new men , Out of the spent and unconsidered Earth , The Cities rise again . This season 's Daffodil , She never hears , What change , what chance , what chill , Cut down last year 's : But with bold countenance , And knowledge small , Esteems her seven days ' continuance To be perpetual . So Time that is o'er-kind , To all that be , Ordains us e ` en as blind , As bold as she : That in our very death , And burial sure , Shadow to shadow , well persuaded , saith , ` See how our works endure ! ' A Centurion of the Thirtieth Dan had come to grief over his Latin , and was kept in ; so Una went alone to Far Wood .
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CENTURION Dan Earth England Time Una WELAND daily days sun-bonnet