Let me be gone.’ And stealing blind consent,

Forth on that well-remember’d road she went,

And climb’d upon the peak above the dale.

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There on the topmost rock, where Psyche first

Had by her weeping sire been left to die,

She stood a moment, in her hope accurst

Being happy; and the cliffs took up her cry

With chuckling mockery from her tongue above,

Zephyr, sweet Zephyr, waft me to my love!