Draining soul's wine alone in the still night,

And seeing how, as gathering films arose,

As by an inspiration life seemed bare

And grinning in its vanity, while ends

Foul to be dreamed of, smiled at me as fixed

And fair, while others changed from fair to foul

As a young witch turns an old hag at night.

No more of this! We will go hand in hand,

I with thee, even as a child—love's slave,

Looking no farther than his liege commands.