And, blushing, rose, and left her couch of skies.

We saw the Naiad, clothed with veiling mist,

Half hidden in a bay of amethyst,

With shell-like breasts, and at her hollow ear

A shell's pink labyrinth held up to hear

Circean echoes of the Siren's strains

Imprisoned in its chords of vermeil veins:

Then, stealing wily from a grove of pines,

The Oread, in cincture of green vines;

Her cautious feet, fragrant and twinkling wet,