The brother of Love, shall end our Sorrow.

AVERLAINE: The Shadow is strong with the strength of Fate,

And, slain, would rise from the grave to-morrow.

ARKELD: Ah God, ah God, that it never had been!

AVERLAINE: The Shadow, the Shadow for ever between!

2.

AVERLAINE: Yea, we must part, and tear with ruthless hands

The golden web wherein, too late, Love strove

To weave us joy and bind us heart to heart.

ARKELD: Yea, we must part, and strew on desert-sands