While I describe the luxury. No asp

Is diapered more delicate round throat

Than this below the handle! These denote

—These mazy lines meandering, to end

Only in flesh they open—what intend

They else but water-purlings—pale contrast

With the life-crimson where they blend at last?

And mark the handle's dim pellucid green,

Carved, the hard jadestone, as you pinch a bean,

Into a sort of parrot-bird! He pecks