If she wished not the rash deed's recallment?

"For I"—so I spoke—"am a poet:

Human nature,—behooves that I know it!"

She told me, "Too long had I heard

Of the deed proved alone by the word:

For my love—what De Lorge would not dare!

With my scorn—what De Lorge could compare!

And the endless descriptions of death

He would brave when my lip formed a breath,

I must reckon as braved, or, of course,