XII.
Methought to thine my angel spake:—
Near us he seemed, and yet above—
“Two children these! their sport they take;
They teach each other how to love.”
Thine angel answered thus to mine:
“When Virtue, perfected by pain,
Has changed earth-love to love divine,
Then, stooping, we will lift these twain
“From this dull cave of mortal life