And leap into yon waves, where on the watch

For mackerel Olpis sits: tho' I 'scape death,

That I have all but died will pleasure thee.

That learned I when (I murmuring 'loves she me?')

The Love-in-absence, crushed, returned no sound,

But shrank and shrivelled on my smooth young wrist.

I learned it of the sieve-divining crone

Who gleaned behind the reapers yesterday:

'Thou'rt wrapt up all,' Agraia said, 'in her;

She makes of none account her worshipper.'