Portraits V the young man sitting in Dick Mid’s Place said to Death teach me of her Thy yonder servant who in Thy very house silently sits looking beyond the kissing and striving of that old man who at her redstone mouth renews his childhood and He said “willingly for the tale is short it was i think yourself delivered into both my hands herself to always keep” always? the young man sitting in Dick Mid’s Place asked “always” Death said “then as i recollect her girlhood was by the kindly lips and body fatherly of a romantic tired business man somewhat tweaked and dinted then did my servant become of the company of those ladies with faces painteaten and bodies lightly desperate certainly wherefrom departed is youth’s indispensable illusion”