"Oh where is Love?" he said again,
"Let me not seek, and seek in vain!

In the proud cities have I been,

In cottages I've sought him,

'Midst lords, 'midst shepherds on the green,

But none of them have brought him--

There."

"He is banished," replied the knight,
"By the cold looks of our ladies bright!"--

"He is gone," said the lady fair,

"To sport in Eden's arbours,

As for men's hearts, his old repair,