And lo! at last, outstretch’d beside the rocks,

Psyche as lifeless; and the open box

Laid with the weedy refuse of the sea.

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He guess’d all, flew down, and beside her knelt.

With both his hands stroking her temples wan;

And for the poison with his fingers felt,

And drew it gently from her; and anon

She slowly from those Stygian fumes was freed;

Which he with magic handling and good heed