Parted by now they yet had rendered rightly

Memory each to each, love's last reward.

But of their love maybe a fiercer glow

They had who saved their honour at the last

By direst means. Whether it be or no,

In death their faces held a something fast.

Beneath the fall's white glare and drumming zest,

Where on black depths an hundred suns are burning,

Their bodies bound, like faggots, breast to breast

Rose for a peaceful space, lazily turning: