Eros plucks at Oracle’s words
Psyche must wed hideous creature
Funeral wedding atop a rocky mount
Psyche leaps ...

Caught by Zephyrus and whisked to sleep

She awakes in palace golden
The creature comes to her in the dark
Pleasure is conceived
But jealous sisters poison Psyche’s soul
For the sake of unborn child she must kill husband unseen
Raising lamp and knife,
Psyche spies winged beauty
Furious Eros banishes her to sleep

Sleep, Psyche, sleep again ...