Among the Cyclades, a happy two,

We sailed; and from the Siren-haunted shore,

All mystic in its mist, the soft wind bore

The Siren's song; where, on the ghostly steeps,

Strange foliage grew, deeps folding upon deeps,

That hung and beamed with blossom and with bud,

Blue-petaled, pallid, or, like urns of blood,

Dripping; or blowing from wide mouths of blooms

On our hot brows cool gales of dim perfumes.

While from the yellow stars, that splashed the skies,