Like echoed flow of silent stream,
Or shadow of forgotten dream;
The whisper trembling in the wind:
'Her fate with thine was intertwined,'
So spake it in his inner mind:
'Each orbed on each a baleful star,
Each proved the other's blight and bar,
Each unto each were best, most far:
'Yea, each to each was worse than foe,
Thou, a scared dullard, gibbering low,