She turns to her lover, she leaves her sire.

Mother! on earth it must still be so:

Thou rearest the lovely to see them go!

They are moving onward, the bridal throng,

Ye may track their way by the swells of song;

Ye may catch through the foliage their white robes’ gleam,

Like a swan midst the reeds of a shadowy stream;

Their arms bear up garlands, their gliding tread

Is over the deep-vein’d violet’s bed;

They have light leaves around them, blue skies above,