Pleased it returned as soon with answering looks

Of sympathy and love; there I had fixed

Mine eyes till now,—and pined with vain desire,

Had not a voice thus warned me.

‘What thou seest,

What there thou seest, fair creature, is thyself;

With thee it came and goes; but follow me,

And I will bring thee where no shadow stays

Thy coming and thy soft embraces.’

What could I do but follow straight