Thoughts too divine to rise in utterance,

Which even lovers’ tongues may never tell,

Though their hearts feel them, fluttering with wings.

I would some sleight of thine had filled the cup

With a love-potion, such as Iseult gave

To Tristram, while they journeyed to King Marc

In their beaked ship across the glooming sea,

And thou hadst tasted of it, ere my lips

Drank of the potent venom. But, O Prince,

No potion is there to increase my love: