Love tales of old Arabia,

Full of enchantments and emprise—

But no enchantments like your eyes.

Ah, Geraldine, loved Geraldine,

Less lovely were those maids, I ween,

Pampinea and Lauretta, who,

In gardens old of dusk and dew,

Sat with their lovers, maid and man,

In stately days Italian,

And in quaint stories, that we know