Such love has labored its best and worst

To win me a lover; yet, last as first,

I have not quickened his pulse one beat,

Fixed a moment's fancy, bitter or sweet:

Yet the strong fierce heart's love's labor's due,

Utterly lost, was—you!

ADAM, LILITH, AND EVE

One day, it thundered and lightened.

Two women, fairly frightened,

Sank to their knees, transformed, transfixed,