And ponders on her looks for love of her.

Yea, her flower-named whose fate was like a flower,

Being bright and brief and broken in an hour

And whirled of winds: and her whose lawless hand

Held flickering flame to fawn against the brand,

Till Meleager splendid as the sun

Shrank to a star and set, and all her day was done:

And her who lent her slight white virgin light

For death to dim, that Athens’ mastering might

Above all seas should shine, supernal sphere of night: