With aroma, and in hue

Stars and rainbows duplicate

Here on earth for me and you.

Yea! at last mine eyes can see!

'Tis no shadow of the tree

Swaying softly there, but she!—

Mænad, Bassarid, Bacchant,

What you will, who doth enchant

Night with sensuous nudity.

Lo! again I hear her pant

Breasting through the dewy glooms—

Through the glow-worm gleams and glowers

Of the starlight;—wood-perfumes

Swoon around her and frail showers

Of the leaflet-tilted rain.

Lo, like love, she comes again,

Through the pale, voluptuous dusk,

Sweet of limb with breasts of musk.

With her lips, like blossoms, breathing

Honeyed pungence of her kiss,

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