Join’d in the tempest of your sighs and tears.

Alv. But what if I remember other times

When Serafina was no stubborn oak,

Resisting wind and wave, but a fair flower

That open’d to the sun of early love,

And follow’d him along the golden day:

No barren heartless rock,

But a fair temple in whose sanctuary

Love was the idol, daily and nightly fed

With sacrifice of one whole human heart.