The fountain splashed and bubbled in the court.

Beside it, in a space of softened light,

Under a linen awning, ten feet high,

Roofing a half-enclosure, where three walls

Were tinted to a pine-wood’s blue-black shade,

I saw a woman seated on a throne,

And Leonardo, with his radiant eyes,

Glancing from his wet canvas to her face.

Her face was filled with music. Music swelled

Above them, from a gallery out of sight;