The Sirens haunt, hung deep on silent deep,—

When, in a hollow pearl, down moon-white waves,

The creatures of the ocean danced their queen

Unto an island, like a rosy mist

That glimmering dreamed upon the glimmering blue.

There on the silvery sands beside the sea,

Beneath the moon,—narcissus-white,—they met,

She naked as a star and crowned with stars,

Child of the airy foam and Queen of Love.