Laughters with lips that were mist. And murmurings crept

On toward me feet that were glow; and faces uncovered,

Radiant and crystalline clear,

In tortuous, sinuous swirl of vapory pearl,

Waned near and more near.

Flashed faster a spiral of shapes and of shadows still faster,

On in a whirl of unutterable beauties by music expired,

That lived and desired,—

Born births of the brain of a rhapsody-reveling master;

And mine eyes, with their beauties infired,