Then to your twilights take me, Bird of Night,

Since now I’m one with you: I fear the light.

XLI

Again, again you ask how you can know

How much I really love you? This to me!

All women I do envy that I see

If they have aught of youth or charm to show,

And wonder, would you like me better so,

If better thus, if thus changed I might be,

Count o’er the years of youth still left to me