Like Ares comes the bridegroom,
Hymenæus!
Taller far than a tall man,
Hymenæus!"
But their thoughts are all for the rejoicing bride, who blushes "as sweet as the apple on the end of the bough."
"O fair--O sweet!
As the sweet apple blooms high on the bough,
High as the highest, forgot of the gatherers:
So thou:--
Yet not so: nor forgot of the gatherers;