Listened to—fondly; and awakened me
To hear my voice amid the voice of birds
When it was inarticulate as theirs,
And the down deadened it within the nest.’
He moved her gently from him, silent still:
And this, and this alone, brought tears from her
Although she saw fate nearer: then, with sighs,—
‘I thought to have laid down my hair before
Benignant Artemis, and not have dimmed
Her polisht altar with my virgin blood;