Thy fingers a frosted stream.

Thy maidens are white like pebbles;

Their music about thee!

There is none like thee among the dancers;

None with swift feet.

FROM “NEAR PÉRIGORD”

Ed eran due in uno, ed uno in due. Inferno, XXVIII, 125.

I loved a woman. The stars fell from heaven.

And always our two natures were in strife.

Bewildering spring, and by the Auvezère