PART SIX - BYWAYS

"Cry _Kismet!_ and take heart. Eros is gone,

Nor may we follow to that loftier air

Olympians breathe. Take heart, and enter where

A lighter Love, vine-crowned, laughs i' the sun,

Oblivious of tangled webs ill-spun

By ancient wearied weavers, for it may be

His guidance leads to lovers of such as we

And hearts so credulous as to be won.

"Cry _Kismet!_ Put away vain memories

Of all old sorrows and of all old joys,

And learn that life is never quite amiss

So long as unreflective girls and boys

Remember that young lips were meant to kiss,

And hold that laughter is a seemly noise."

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