I used its power once more for speedy flight,

What checked the act was shame I felt for her,

For her I’d spare the shocked recoil, for her

The eternal crypt of shadow round her Being,

Not you—forgive my fevered wish—the deed.

Kan.

You are a fool!

Gyges.

A fool! It drove me forth

As though, if still I tarried there, a sense,