To-morrow, and our loves are twinned no more.

To-morrow came, to bring us woe and war.

What have I done, that I should stand with these

Hearkening the dread shouts borne upon the breeze,

While she, far off, sits weeping 'neath her trees?

Alas, O kings, what is it ye have done?

THE MAIDENS

Come, love, delay not; come, and slay my dread!

Already is the banquet table spread;

In the cool chamber flower-strewn is my bed: