Pant thro' the bramble-matted avenues,—

Where brier and thorn have gashed her gown's pinched green,

About bright breasts and arms, the milky sheen

Of white skin healthy pouting out; her face,

Ardent and flushed, fixed on the lordly chase.

III.

THE eve now came; and shadows cowled the way

Like somber palmers, who have kneeled to pray

Beside a wayside shrine, and rosy rolled