1. The rope of union has become entangled
After secret love and covenant concealed

2. I've replaced an anklet though she understood
I'll never roam, despised, in vale deserted

3. Excuse the cross if chiding you it bore
Against the best of folk, present or gone

4. Seeing the hoariness that grips a man
Post youth-while grey hair bodes but doom, she spurned

5. And said "I see the locks age branches out
While youth ascending scales the bones like ivy

6. Her spittle after grief seemed cut with aloes
That tavern-keepers diluted from the tap

7. Raising the banner of past joys effaced
Cloaked in neglect, the basil sealed from sight

8. As half a year in new moons fleeted by
At Afan's gate comparing steps and stairs

9. Until untouched she met him, chaste and pure
That traders sprinkle on, and well-rope pulleys

10. And lavishness of gait the sands engulfed
Wherein the perishing are oft astray

11. Desolate spots, haunts where is no friend
Save echo, owl, and driving rain and lightning