you will step carefully

from amber stones to onyx

flecked with violet,

mingled with light,

half showing the sea-grass

and sea-sand underneath,

reflecting your white feet

and the gay strap crimson

as lily-buds of Arion,

and the gold that binds your feet.

II

You will pass

beneath the island disk

(and myrtle-wood,

the carved support of it)

and the white stretch

of its white beach,

curved as the moon crescent

or ivory when some fine hand

chisels it:

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