Alcyone
SONNET
PHoeBUS
What voice is this that wails above the deep?
ALCYONE
A wife's, that mourns her fate and loveless days.
PHoeBUS
What love lies buried in these waterways?
ALCYONE
A husband's, hurried to eternal sleep.
PHoeBUS
Cease, O beloved, cease to wail and weep.
ALCYONE
Wherefore?
PHoeBUS
The waters in a fiery blaze
Proclaim the godhead of my healing rays.
ALCYONE
No god can sow where fate hath stood to reap.
PHoeBUS
Hold, wringing hands! cease, piteous tears, to fall!
ALCYONE
But grief must rain and glut the passionate sea.
PHoeBUS
Thou shalt forget this ocean and thy wrong,
And I will bless the dead, though past recall.
ALCYONE
What canst thou give to me or him in me?
PHoeBUS
A name in story and a light in song.
PHoeBUS
What voice is this that wails above the deep?
ALCYONE
A wife's, that mourns her fate and loveless days.
PHoeBUS
What love lies buried in these waterways?
ALCYONE
A husband's, hurried to eternal sleep.
PHoeBUS
Cease, O beloved, cease to wail and weep.
ALCYONE
Wherefore?
PHoeBUS
The waters in a fiery blaze
Proclaim the godhead of my healing rays.
ALCYONE
No god can sow where fate hath stood to reap.
PHoeBUS
Hold, wringing hands! cease, piteous tears, to fall!
ALCYONE
But grief must rain and glut the passionate sea.
PHoeBUS
Thou shalt forget this ocean and thy wrong,
And I will bless the dead, though past recall.
ALCYONE
What canst thou give to me or him in me?
PHoeBUS
A name in story and a light in song.
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