This glade where three, left thoughtful, were as figures

Molded of shadow. Dora was gone with Bruce,

Gasping and crying “Wait!”

But the three tall ones

Listened to nothing human. Hermes came.

IV

Hermes came, and hailing his three peers,

Spoke Aphrodite’s name; whose beautiful laughter

Answered as she glistened in their midst—

No woman now, but goddess. So Hephaestus