Before I Woke - May 14

A girl,(her long baby blue dress,)was sat a pace behind me(golden earrings gleaming); She smiled(her waterfalling hair fell streaming) to me as I turned to her(eyes!)and at (her freckles sparkled)a glancing cue to chat (in her rosy lips)went teasing,—we scheming— (a grinning wink,)—one kiss, then two or(dreaming), who was the mouse? moreso, who was the cat? At dinner,(candles lit her flickered face,) a tableful of people,(how she glowed!) she in a scarlet dress—but I alone, apart from(her)the group, I turned a stone. —(her crimson lips)she spoke(her frowned brow showed), “I’m giving you a chance.—(please learn your place…)”