And shut from earth’s profoundest eyes).

I saw in prophetic gleams

These mighty daughters in their dances

Beckon each soul aghast from its crimson corpse

To mix in their glittering dances:

I heard the mighty daughters’ giant sighs

In sleepless passion for the sons of valour

And envy of the days of flesh,

Barring their love with mortal boughs across—

The mortal boughs, the mortal tree of life.