2. Echo. As now!

Yield Night, then to the light,

As Blackness hath to Beauty:

Which is but the same duty.

It was for Beauty that the world was made,

And where she reigns, Love’s lights admit no shade.”

In a second song a reference is made to the mysterious nativity of love.

“So Beauty on the waters stood,

When Love had sever’d earth from flood!

So when he parted air from fire,