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“O Prince Bellerophon,” at last she said,
“I dreamed last night that I beheld thee dead;
I knew thee thus, for twice had I seen thee,
Unseen myself, in this festivity;
And since I know how loved a man thou art,
Here have I come, to bid thee to depart,
Since that thou mayst do yet.”
Nigher he came
And said: “O fair one, I am but a name
To thee, as men are to the Gods above;
And what thing, then, thy heart to this did move?”