Once having dipped their palms they drank full draught,
And, like the desert-parched, alone at first
Felt the delight of drinking, while they quaffed
As if the waters could not slake their thirst;
That nicer sense unreached, when down we fling,
And view the oasis around the spring.
And, in that first bewilderment, perchance
The Prince’s lapse had caught some peering eye,
But that his long repute, and maintenance
Against each test, had put suspicion by.