That a report (especially the Greeks)
Avouched his death (such people never die),
And put his house in mourning several weeks,—
But now their eyes and also lips were dry;
The bloom, too, had returned to Haidée's cheeks:
Her tears, too, being returned into their fount,
She now kept house upon her own account.
XXXIX.
Hence all this rice, meat, dancing, wine, and fiddling,
Which turned the isle into a place of pleasure;