The other with a deadly gurgle stuns.

Their stream commingles for all Eva’s sons

And daughters who with mutual passion thrill.

None, none may drink the nectar pure, which shuns

All human lips till with the poison-rill

’Tis mixed, and happiest they whose cups the least may fill!

II.

And Young Love sits upon a flowery knoll

Where those two streamlets mix, his shafts he dips

In their joint flow, and ceaseless twangs at all