Vintaging

I stalked his vintagings, And here, to Bacchus vowed, alive he swings.

When I lifted mine eyes, far, far away, Thou it was turning the new-mown hay, Thou it was in the new vintagings, And it was thy step, all a shiver of wings.

"And in the days of Noah," the rector added, pausing in the act of choosing a cigar, "if not in salons, then at their marryings and feastings, their vintagings and gossipings round fountains while the pitchers ran over."