Psyche, and other poems — page 85: what you’re looking at

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67 Their destined course impatient to achieve, The knight is urgent onward to proceed : Cheered with recruited strength they take their leave Of their kind host, and pay their grateful meed Of warmest thanks sincere ; onward they speed. Their sunless journey long through forests green, And tangled thickets rank with many a weed; And when at closing day a hut is seen, They seek the humble roof, nor scorn its welcome mean. it happened once that early roused from sleep, (Ere her damp veil the virgin morn had, cast From her pale face, not yet with blushes deep Lovely suffused, as when approaching fast His herald star proclaims her spouse at last) Psyche forsaking soon her homely bed, Alone had fearless the low threshold past, And, to beguile the hours which lingering fled, Light o’er the dewy plain walked forth with nimble tread. Yet though the knight close wrapt in slumber lay, Her steps, at distance, still the page pursued, Fearful that danger might befal her way, Or lest, entangled in the mazy wood, Returning she should miss the pathway rude. The lark now hails the sun with rapturous song, The cheerful earth resounds with gratitude, O’er the gay scene, as Psyche tript along, | ‘She felt her spirits rise, her lightened heart grow strong. | G2 \ t Comicbooks com