āEve is a twofold mystery.ā
āDeep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.ā
āXI I sang his name instead of song; Over and over I sang his name: Backward and forward I sang it along, With my sweetest notes, it was still the same! I sang it low, that the slave-girls near Might never guess, from what they could hear, That all the song was a name.ā
āFor frequent tears have run; The colours from my life.ā
āYet how proud we are,In daring to look down upon ourselves!ā
āWill that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!ā
āWolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.ā
āWe that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.ā
āIt is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.ā