However angry, jealous, sad, ashamed.

Dissolve, image, dissolve!

Make no appeal to the hunter in my nature,

Leave me to self-reproach in my own time;

If I too promised more than you could meet,

Your beauty overrode my sense of fate

And fitness, with extravagant pretence.

Is it true that we were lovers once, or nearly?

Lovers should sleep together on one pillow

Clasped in each others arms with lip to lip,