But
for us existence is still enchanted.
As his singing head floated
down
the
River Styx, dreams
sprang up,
and he recalled that
she, too, had
looked
back. Ah!
His
blue lips smiled, "grasped
in vain at shadows,
longing
to
speak further," but silently, he
bobbed through
the Gates of
Hades, a married
man,
again.