I know that we must keep apart for a long while; cruel tongues would force us apart, if nothing else did.

And hence the custom and law began That still at dawn the sacristan, Who duly pulls the heavy bell, Five and forty beads must tell Between each stroke

To make it a bit easier to follow, each added letter is underlined, and insertions/hydrations/ caudations are parenthesized.

Her hair, flowing beneath her head-dress of cerulean silk, ornamented with crimson and surmounted by a gold-embroidered crown, was internetted with minute spiculæ of gold about the size of a spangle, and fell like the fabulous tiara of a mermaid upon her shoulders.