Attended by their handmaids fair:

Like birds of passage now they seem,

Who seek a softer clime and milder air.

Now round each other’s loins their arms they wreathe;

Like wild ducks now they dive the stream beneath:

Their snow-white arms they oft employ,

Like fishes’ fins, to stem the wave;

The wave transported foams with joy,

Such graceful-fashion’d limbs to lave.

But who of these in Loptur’s eyes