Sang Ysabeau:

“Were the All-Mother wise, life (shaped anotherwise)

Would be all high and true;

Could I be otherwise I had been otherwise

Simply because of you, ...

With whom I have naught to do,

And who are no longer you!

“Life with its pay to be bade us essay to be

What we became,—I believe

Were there a way to be what it was play to be