Too long my love hath lain untold;

Yet mine was not an unshared sorrow

But grief for thine and thy sad to-morrow

If my lord, thy father, fail to send

His cavalry."

'God will defend

His maid," she said, "God will provide.

But, if to Rimini I ride,

I shall be glad recalling this,

That thou did'st not withhold thy kiss