Bidding them choose and take whate’er they chose;

And beckoning the Zephyr spake anon

That he should waft her sisters to the peak;

The which he did, and, ere they more coud speak,

They rose on high, and in the wind were gone.

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Nor till again they came upon the road,

Which from the mountain shoulder o’er the plain

Led to the city of their sire’s abode,

Found they their tongues, though full of high disdain