Next Aphroditè sleeps the roseate-armed,

A bridegroom of eighteen or nineteen years.

Kiss the smooth boyish lip—there's no sting there!

The bride hath found her own: all bliss be hers!

And him at dewy dawn we'll troop to bear

Down where the breakers hiss against the shore:

There, with dishevelled dress and unbound hair,

Bare-bosomed all, our descant wild we'll pour:

"Thou haunt'st, Adonis, earth and heaven in turn,

Alone of heroes. Agamemnon ne'er