Let me depart, since ye are happy here.

PUELLÆ

We mock thee not. Hast thou not heard of those

Whose faithful love the loved heart holds so close,

That death must wait till one word lets it loose?

Abide! abide! for we are happy here.

AMANS

I hear you not: the wind from off the waste

Sighs like a song that bids me make good haste

The wave of sweet forgetfulness to taste.