Where first I met thee in thy pain:

I am not clad so fair," said he,

"But yet the old hurts thou may'st see.

And thou, but for thy gown of gold,

A piteous tale of thee were told."

"There is no pain on earth," she said,

"Since I have drawn thee from the dead."

"And parting waiteth for us there,"

Said he, "as it was yester-year."

"Yet first a space of love," she said,