Their big dark eyes had mists of blue.

Their breath

Was meadows newly mown.

By all the gods

That ever wrung man’s heart out in the grave

I did not dream this life into the world.—

Blood of the grape upon the girl’s brown arms

And lean, young, bird-like fingers told me this.

Her smooth feet powdered by the warm grey dust;

The grape-stalk that she held in her white teeth;