Beside the ceaseless whisper of the foam

Of one faint fountain. Sweeter mockery

Had never held him: and he heard her sing:—

"Ask me not now to sing to thee

Songs I have loved to sing before.

I love thee not; it can not be:

The dream is done; the song is o'er.

"Come, hold my hands: look deep into

The heartbreak of my eyes that bore

Glad welcome erst and now adieu;