Flowers of more mingled hue
Than her purfled scarf can shew, 995
And drenches with Elysian dew
(List, mortals, if your ears be true)
Beds of hyacinth and roses,
Where young [Adonis] oft reposes,
Waxing well of his deep wound, 1000
In slumbers soft, and on the ground
Sadly sits [the Assyrian queen].
But far above, in spangled sheen,