Though ribboned light on mirrored walls such sheen

Of bright foam flung, as when flowers overlean

A river’s marge and dance at wind’s behest.

Outside within the night your lute-string trilled.

The yellow whirling ball-room floated far,

We stood together ’neath the morning star;

You reached a lilac branch with blossoms filled,

O’er me was flung its jewelled, fragrant rain—

“Love! clasp me close,” I cried,—“the dawn again!”

LVI