That, at the moment when thou shouldst descend,
A pure refreshment might thy thirst attend.
"Hast thou forgotten earth, forgotten me,
Thy fellow-bondsman in a royal cause,
Who, from the sadness of infinity,
Only with thee can know that peaceful pause
In which we catch the flowing strain of love,
Which binds our dim fates to the throne of Jove?
"Before I saw thee, I was like the May,
Longing for summer that must mar its bloom,