Beneath it for the final journey's help!

O we poor parents—could we prophesy!"

Léonce was found affectionate enough

To man, to woman, child, bird, beast, alike;

But all affection, all one fire of heart

Flaming toward Madame-mother. Had she posed

The question plainly at the outset "Choose!

Cut clean in half your all-the-world of love,

The mother and the mistress: then resolve,

Take me or take her, throw away the one!"—