ANNALS OF EALING.

CIRCUMSTANCE.

Two children in two neighbour villages
Playing mad pranks along the healthy leas;
Two strangers meeting at a festival;

Two lovers whispering by an orchard wall;
Two lives bound fast in one with golden ease;
Two graves grass-green beside a gray church-tower,
Wash'd with still rains and daisy-blossomed ;

Two children in one hamlet born and bred;
So runs the round of life from hour to hour.

Tennyson.