I

All desolate she sate her down

Upon the marble of the temple's stair.

You would have thought her, with her eyes of brown,

Flushed cheeks and hazel hair,

A Dryad dreaming there.

II

A priest of Bacchus passed, nor stopped

To chide her; deeming her—whose chiton hid

But half her bosom, and whose girdle dropped—