—“Was she not fair?”⁠—“So beautiful, she seemed + 

Almost a living soul. But every part + 

Was what I made it⁠—all that I had dreamed⁠— + 

No more, no less: the mirror of my heart, + 

Such things as boyhood feigns beneath the smart + 

Of solitude and spring. I was deceived + 

Almost. In that first moment I believed. + 