AFTER her bath, yet early in the day,

She donned a ketonet or tunica;

With gems enclasped it, close as a caress,

And smoothed its folds out o'er her loveliness

In fondly fashioned outlines. It was made

Of Persian satin, opaline and white,

Like moving mists around the moon arrayed,

Thro' which she shone, a lovelier light in light

Almost immortal: on a low divan

A fleecy texture tinted Tyrian,