I found them, faithless, shameless pair!

Making love with tangled hair.

“Alas,” the goddess cried, “nor god, nor man,

Nor medicinable balm, nor magic can

Cast out the demon jealousy, whose breath

Withers the rose of life, save only time and death.”

Another sheet he took and read again.

Farewell to love, and hail the long, slow pain

Of memory that backward turns to joy.

O I have danced enough and enough sung;