"The stripling asked her whitherward they sped, And of the two which claimed her as his right;
This, point by point, to him Flammetta read;
Flammetta she, the Greek that boy was hight.
` -- When I had hoped the time was coming,' said The Greek -- `that I should live with thee, my light, Flammetta, thou, alas! art lost to me, Nor know I if I more thy face shall see.