Oh my Prince Beautiful, thou hast an Overseer in place[[254]]

Who irketh me; and eke a Groom whose wrong doth ne'er relent.

Indeed he lieth who hath said that all of loveliness

Was pent in Joseph: in thy charms there's many and many a Joe!

The Genii dread me when I stand and face to face address;

But meeting thee my fluttering heart its shame and terror show.

I take aversion semblance and I turn from thee in fright,

But more aversion I assume, more love from me dost claim;

That hair of jetty black! That brow e'er raying radiant light!

Those eyne wherein white jostles black![[255]] That dearling dainty frame!