From which may rude Death never startle them,

But grow upon them like a glorious vision

Of unconceived and awful happiness,

Solemn but splendid, full of shapes and sounds,

Swallowing its precedent in victory.

Let them so love that men and boys may say,

Lo! how they love each other! till their love

Shall ripen to a proverb unto all,

Known when their faces are forgot in the land.

And as for me, Camilla, as for me,