Replaced in pyx, and shut the lid thereon.

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‘O Psyche,’ thus, and kissing her he cried,

‘O simple-hearted Psyche, once again

Hast thou thy foolish longing gratified,

A second time hath prying been thy bane.

But lo! I, love, am come, for I am thine:

Nor ever more shall any fate malign,

Or spite of goddess smite our love in twain.

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