L + 

With duller steel than the Perséan sword + 

They cut away no formless monster’s head, + 

But one, whose gentleness did well accord + 

With death, as life. The ancient harps have said, + 

Love never dies, but lives, immortal Lord: + 

If Love impersonate was ever dead, + 

Pale Isabella kiss’d it, and low moan’d. + 

’Twas love; cold,⁠—dead indeed, but not dethron’d. + 