Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses, The

<p><SPAN name="link2H_4_0032" id="link2H_4_0032"></SPAN></p> <h2> Premonition </h2> <p>'Twas a year ago and the moon was bright<br/> (Oh, I remember so well, so well);<br/> I walked with my love in a sea of light,<br/> And the voice of my sweet was a silver bell.<br/> And sudden the moon grew strangely dull,<br/> And sudden my love had taken wing;<br/> I looked on the face of a grinning skull,<br/> I strained to my heart a ghastly thing.<br/> <br/> 'Twas but fantasy, for my love lay still<br/> In my arms, with her tender eyes aglow,<br/> And she wondered why my lips were chill,<br/> Why I was silent and kissed her so.<br/> A year has gone and the moon is bright,<br/> A gibbous moon, like a ghost of woe;<br/> I sit by a new-made grave to-night,<br/> And my heart is broken &mdash; it's strange, you know.<br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />