He brought her to his room:

And in the awfulness of death,

That filled her wide eyes with its breath,

He set her in a carven chair

Where the still moon could kiss her hair.

One moment then he paused to think:

Then to her lips, all drawn and dead,

His strange elixir pressed and—"Drink!

Drink life and love!" he said.

And it—it drank; the dead drank slow: