XXXVII.

And yet, alas! to see the strength which clings

Round woman in such hours!—a mournful sight,

Though lovely!—an o’erflowing of the springs,

The full springs of affection, deep as bright!

And she, because her life is ever twined

With other lives, and by no stormy wind

May thence be shaken, and because the light

Of tenderness is round her, and her eye

Doth weep such passionate tears—therefore she thus can die.