The world to witness, wonder and applaud.

Our flower of life breaks open. No delay!

Con. And so shall we be ruined, both of us.

Norbert, I know her to the skin and bone:

You do not know her, were not born to it,

To feel what she can see or cannot see.

Love, she is generous,—ay, despite your smile,

Generous as you are: for, in that thin frame

Pain-twisted, punctured through and through with cares,

There lived a lavish soul until it starved,