Though rising gale and breaking foam,

And shrieking sea birds warned him home;

And clouds aloft, and tides below,

With sighs, and sounds, forbade to go;

He could not see, he would not hear,

Or sound or sign foreboding fear;

His eye but saw that light of love,

The only star it hailed above;

His ear but rang with Hero's song,

'Ye waves divide not lovers long!'"