Change then those hours to minutes, days to day;
If you say't shall be so time must obey.'
'Alas,' quoth she, 'my faith is not so strong,
To think reality with language dwells,
Nor can I think you count those minutes long
1290When you're employèd with your beads and bells.
Yet t' has the face of truth: I'll therefore try
If time will pay such duty to mine eye.'
'These words have lent my body a new soul,
And shot', quoth he, 'a fire through every vein;