And past the sleeping warder, deep within

The portals of that chamber whence all winds

Of love flow ever toward the fourfold Earth,

Hypnos kept on, walking, yet half afloat

In the sweet air; and fluttering with cool wings

Above their couch fanned the reposeful pair

To slumber. Thus, a careless twilight hour,

Unknowing Eôs and her torch, they slept.

Ill-fated rest! Awake, ye fleet-winged Loves,

Your mistress! Eôs, rouse the sleeping God,