IN AN OMNIBUS.

YOUR smile is like a treachery, A treachery adorable; So smiles the siren where the sea Sings to the unforgetting shell.

Your fleeting Leonardo face, Parisian Monna Lisa, dreams Elusively, but not of streams Born in a shadow-haunted place.

Of Paris, Paris, is your thought, Of Paris robes, and when to wear The latest bonnet you have bought To match the marvel of your hair.

Yet that fine malice of your smile, That faint and fluctuating glint Between your eyelids, does it hint Alone of matters mercantile?

Close lips that keep the secret in, Half spoken by the stealthy eyes, Is there indeed no word to win, No secret, from the vague replies

Of lips and lids that feign to hide That which they feign to render up? Is there, in Tantalus' dim cup, The shadow of water, nought beside?