. Blood for blood; a legend of the "big elm tree,". 64 CUPID AND PSYCHE Cupid and Psyche togetherStood on a Grecian isle— One of the classic seven That make the old sea-god smile. Afar on the ^Egean were tracesOf the coming king of day, And the flush of his advent reddenedThe brow of the new-born May. Cupid had neither mantleNor girdle nor sandal on— Night was the gown which PsycheHad worn—but night was gone. Cupid drew Psyche gentlyAnd tenderly to his breast; The ripe haw is not redder Than the lips that Cupid pressed. Have Cupid and Psyche parted, Uttering, each, farewell?Has the feast of ro
. Blood for blood; a legend of the "big elm tree,". 64 CUPID AND PSYCHE Cupid and Psyche togetherStood on a Grecian isle— One of the classic seven That make the old sea-god smile. Afar on the ^Egean were tracesOf the coming king of day, And the flush of his advent reddenedThe brow of the new-born May. Cupid had neither mantleNor girdle nor sandal on— Night was the gown which PsycheHad worn—but night was gone. Cupid drew Psyche gentlyAnd tenderly to his breast; The ripe haw is not redder Than the lips that Cupid pressed. Have Cupid and Psyche parted, Uttering, each, farewell?Has the feast of roses ended ? Let an old legend tell. 65. 66 A legend that sets a-dreaming Knight and shepherd and swain— The youth and the maiden sing itOver and over again. It is breathed in the halls of pleasure,It is whispered beneath the yew— It shadows the life of the lone one,The fickle one and the true. It runs through the checkered lifeway,As through the lattice the vine—Cupid from his love parted,Or never had I from mine. 67
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