Ah, it has ebbed with me! Ye gods, and when it was flowing,

Pitiful fool that I was, to stand fiddle-faddling in that way!

iv. Claude to Eustace,—from Bellaggio.

I have returned and found their names in the book at Como.

Certain it is I was right, and yet I am also in error.

Added in feminine hand, I read, By the boat to Bellaggio.—

So to Bellaggio again, with the words of her writing to aid me.

Yet at Bellaggio I find no trace, no sort of remembrance.

So I am here, and wait, and know every hour will remove them.

v. Claude to Eustace,—from Bellaggio.