Has but approached the gates of womanhood,

Not entered them; her heart is yet unpierced

By the blind Archer-god; her fancy free: 50

The fount of feeling, if unsought elsewhere,

Will not be found.

Her right hand, as it lies

Across the slender wrist of the left arm

Upon her lap reposing, holds—but mark

How slackly, for the absent mind permits 55

No firmer grasp—a little wild-flower, joined