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‘Much to our peril hast thou won thy will;

Thy sisters’ love, seeing thee honour’d so,

Will sour to envy, and with jealous skill

Will pry to learn the thing that none may know.

Answer not, nor inquire; for know that I

The day thou seest my face far hence shall fly,

And thou anew to bitterest fate must go.’

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But Psyche said, ‘Thy love is more than life;