By the insidious lusts of gold and wine,

Serve to express thee to the bodies of men;

But I express thee to the ghost in them,

For there is none whose vesture is like mine

Weft only of the spirit's highest tissues,

So that the world beholding thee thro' me

Beholds thee at thy zenith, and exalted

Out of the flesh struggles to sense an instant

The music, fire and essence of Olympos.

This Thunderer, wilt thou smirch? More dim, more dim