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Ah, but how each loved each, Marquis! / Here 's the gallery they trod / Both together, he her god, / She his idol, -- lend your rod, / Chamberlain! -- ay, there they are -- "_Quis_ / _Separabit? _" -- plain those two / Touching words come into view, / Apposite for me and you:
Since they witness to incessant / Love like ours: King Francis, he -- / Diane the adored one, she -- / Prototypes of you and me. / Everywhere is carved her Crescent / With his Salamander-sign -- / Flame-fed creature: flame benign / To itself or, if malign,