LXXXVIII.

"And here, alas! he lies across my knees,

With cheeks still colder than the stilly wave.

The light beneath his eyelids seems to freeze;

Here then, since Love is dead and lacks a grave,

O come and dig it in my sad heart's core—

That wound will bring a balsam for its sore!"

LXXXIX.

"For art thou not a sleep where sense of ill

Lies stingless, like a sense benumb'd with cold,