Chess Match (8)
By:
January 26, 2010
My little love, do you remember,
Ere we were grown so sadly wise,
Those evenings in the bleak December,
Curtain’d warm from the snowy weather,
When you and I play’d chess together,
Checkmated by each other’s eyes?
— From “The Chess-Board,” by Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
Eighth in an occasional series.