And when they water’d were and gone, the breeze

Floated the freighted thorn where Psyche lay:

Whence she unhook’d the golden wool at ease,

And back to heaven for passage swift gan pray.

And Hermes, who was sent to be her guide

Ifso she lived, came down at eventide,

And bore her thither ere the close of day.

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But when the goddess saw the locks of gold

Held to her hands, her heart with wrath o’erran: