An altered look about the hills --

A Tyrian light the village fills --

A wider sunrise in the morn --

A deeper twilight on the lawn --

A print of a vermillion foot --

A purple finger on the slope --

A flippant fly upon the pane --

A spider at his trade again --

An added strut in Chanticleer --

A flower expected everywhere --

An axe shrill singing in the woods --

Fern odors on untravelled roads --

All this and more I cannot tell --

A furtive look you know as well --

And Nicodemus Mystery

Receives its annual reply!