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Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Sonnet LXXXVIII: Hero`s Lamp.
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That  lamp thou fill`st in Eros` name to-night,
O Hero, shall the Sestian augurs take
To-morrow, and for drowned Leander`s sake
To Anteros its fireless lip shall plight.
Aye, waft the unspoken vow: yet dawn`s first light
On ebbing storm and life twice ebb`d must break;
While `neath no sunrise, by the Avernian Lake,
Lo where Love walks, Death`s pallid neophyte.
That lamp within Anteros` shadowy shrine
Shall stand unlit (for so the gods decree)
Till some one man the happy issue see
Of a life`s love, and bid its flame to shine:
Which still may rest unfir`d; for, theirs or thine,
O brother, what brought love to them or thee?
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