If from Love's furnace she will rescue me,

For Lycidas is parched with hot desire.

Let halcyons lay the sea-waves and the winds,

Northwind and Westwind, that in shores far-off

Flutters the seaweed—halcyons, of all birds

Whose prey is on the waters, held most dear

By the green Nereids: yea let all things smile

On her to Mitylenè voyaging,

And in fair harbour may she ride at last.

I on that day, a chaplet woven of dill