She bathèd oft with tears and drièd oft:

And with sweet kisses, sucked the wasting breath

Out of his lips, like lilies pale and soft.

And oft she called to him, who answered nought;

But only by his looks did tell his thought.

The rest of her impatient regret

And piteous moan, the which she for him made;

No tongue can tell, nor any forth can set:

But he whose heart, like sorrow did invade.

At last, when pain his vital powers had spent,