One went before, one after, but so fast They seem gone hence together, from the shore Whence we now gaze: yet ere the mightier passed One went before;

One whose whole heart of love, being set of yore On that high joy which music lends us, cast Light round him forth of music’s radiant store.

Then went, while earth on winter glared aghast, The mortal god he worshipped, through the door Wherethrough so late, his lover to the last, One went before.