Of hell-smoke hurrying past the splendid moon

Out now to tolerate no darkness more,

And saw right through the thing that tried to pass

For truth and solid, not an empty lie:

"So, he not only forged the words for her

But words for me, made letters he called mine:

What I sent, he retained, gave these in place,

All by the mistress-messenger! As I

Recognized her, at potency of truth,

So she, by the crystalline soul, knew me,