But that a king and queen are playing chess.’

DEIDRE.

He’s in the right, though I have not been born

Of the cold, haughty waves. My veins are hot.

But though I have loved better than that queen,

I’ll have as quiet fingers on the board.

Oh, singing women, set it down in a book

That love is all we need, even though it is

But the last drops we gather up like this;

And though the drops are all we have known of life,