consider O | |
woman this | |
my body. | |
for it has | |
5 |
lain |
with empty arms | |
upon the giddy hills | |
to dream of you, | |
approve these | |
10 |
firm unsated |
eyes | |
which have beheld | |
night's speechless carnival | |
the painting | |
15 |
of the dark |
with meteors | |
streaming from playful | |
immortal hands | |
the bursting | |
20 |
of the wafted stars |
(in time to come you shall | |
remember of this night amazing | |
ecstasies slowly, | |
in the glutted | |
25 |
heart fleet |
flowerterrible | |
memories | |
shall | |
rise, slowly | |
30 |
retrurn upon the |
red elected lips | |
scaleless visions) |
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