Of my own soul, and in its night your spirit lives.****

Shall I not find the very draught that Lethe gives,

Sweet with your tears, and warm with savour of your kiss?


THE HIDDEN PARADISE

Our passion is a secret Paradise—

Eden of lotos and the fruitful date,

With silence walled and held undesecrate

By man or prying seraph: We are wise

As any god and goddess, who have wrung