But I begin to know what thing hate is—

To sicken and to quiver and grow white—

And I myself have furnished its first prey.

Hate of the weak and ever-wavering will,

The selfishness, the still-decaying frame ...

But I must never grieve whom wing can waft

Far from such thoughts—as now. Andromeda!

And she is with me: years roll, I shall change,

But change can touch her not—so beautiful

With her fixed eyes, earnest and still, and hair