Moulded in immortality of brass.

Still deeper in those labyrinths of pleasure

A siege right perilous the Mage did make

For Grymenysa’s fair, mysterious sake,

For glory of a love withouten measure,

Setting nine seals of Babylonian doom

Upon the entrance to her ivory room,

That but the highest hearts the world had seen

Might know the rapture of its air serene.

And that no sordidness might pass therein