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The hunter to the husbandman / Pays tribute since our love began, / And to love-loyalty dedicates / The phantom kills he meditates. / Let me embrace, embracing you, / Beauty of other shape and hue, / Odd glinting graces of which none / Shone more than candle to your sun, / Your well-kissed hand was beckoning me / In unfamiliar imagery -- / Smile your forgiveness; each bright ghost / Dives in love's glory and is lost, / Yielding your comprehensive pride / A homage, even to suicide.