But when their delicate touches rest

Here in my own do I love them best,

As I clasp with eager acquisitive spans

My glorious treasure of beautiful hands!

Marvelous—wonderful—beautiful hands!

They can coax roses to bloom in the strands

Of your brown tresses; and ribbons will twine.

Under mysterious touches of thine,

Into such knots as entangle the soul,

And fetter the heart under such a control