Held honey-cups up for the violent bee,

Within her garden by the ivied wall,

Where many a fountain, falling musical,

Flamed rubies in the eve against it flung,

Like some wild nightingale the minstrel sung:—

"The passion, oh, of gently smoothing through

Long locks of brown, soft hands as lovers do!

Thy dark, deep locks, rich-jeweled as the dusk

Is scintillant with stars! Oh, frenzy rare

Of clasping slender fingers round thy hair!—