The while a-heap her garments on its ledge

Of boulder lay within hand's easy reach,

—No one least kid-skin cast around her! Speech

Shrinks from enumerating case and case

Of—were it but Diana at the chase,

With tunic tucked discreetly hunting-high!

No, some Queen Venus set our necks awry,

Turned faces from the painter's all-too-frank

Triumph of flesh! For—whom had he to thank

—This self-appointed nature-student? Whence