Immortal question in a mortal face,
The vague desire whereunto man is born.
2
Already in good time her sisters both,
Whose honest charms were never famed as hers,
With princes of the isle had plighted troth,
And gone to rule their foreign courtiers;
But she, exalted evermore beyond
Their loveliness, made yet no lover fond,
And gain’d but number to her worshippers.