Or sang aloud, the listening flocks among,

Sweet legends of their loves;

Then Cupid and fair Psyche breathed their vows,—

He with the feathered darts and bow unstrung,

And garlands on his brows;

She folding gently to her bosom doves

Snow-white, forever, as their mistress, young;

And, as they sighed together, peerless Joy

Enwreathed the maiden and the raptured boy!

IV.