One charm of beauty to herself unknown,

One brightness in the deepest solitude,

One last, one utter mystery of spell

That lives for them and now would live for me.

’Tis true I would not cheat them of revenge

Should I take stolen sippings from the chalice

That for them only brims and sparkles o’er;

The air with sudden bruit would soon be ringing

And Helios, at the inciting beckon of flame

From wrathful Aphrodite all afired,