Stole after her love, flitting still in his track as his feet fared on.

So they from the halls in exceeding vexation of spirit are gone.

But Chalkiopê, from the wrath of Aiêtes shrinking in dread,

Hastily unto her bower with those her sons had fled. {450}

And Medea thereafter followed; and surged like a rushing river

The thoughts through her breast—the thoughts that Love awakeneth ever.

And before her eyes the vision of all evermore she had—

Himself, even like as he was, and the vesture wherein he was clad,

How he spake, how he sat on his seat, how forth of the doors he strode,

And she dreamed as she mused that all the world beside had showed