As she stood naked by the river springs,

Drew down a god: I watched his radiant form

Growing less radiant, and it gladdened me;

Till one morn, as he sat in the sunshine

Upon my knees, singing to me of heaven,

He turned to look at me, ere I could lose

The grin with which I viewed his perishing:

And he shrieked and departed and sat long

By his deserted throne, but sunk at last

Murmuring, as I kissed his lips and curled