Yet come again; for thou perhaps mayst move That heart which now abhors to like his love.

Now mayst thou answer, oh my chosen, and soft shall thy words fall upon mine ears." '

If of thee Charon complain, Now mayst thou know the import of his words."

"Whence comest thou, and who mayst thou be?"

Thus mayst thou also perish!"

Hence therefore mayst thou understand, that all Our knowledge in that instant shall expire, When on futurity the portals close."

"There on the filthy waters," he replied, "E'en now what next awaits us mayst thou see, If the marsh-gender'd fog conceal it not."

"Not from my lips mayst thou hear these tidings; yet, be thou bold, and the daylight shall not pass away from yonder hill-top before thy wish be granted."

Thou, even thou, mayst wake, as wakes the rose To crimson splendour from its grave of snows; As the rich corn-fields rise to red and gold From these brown lands, now stiff with Winter's cold As from the storm-rack comes a perfect star!