And shout, if he should wake too soon,—

As fruit more golden than the sun

And riper than the full-grown moon,

Conglobed in clusters, weighs them down,

Like Atlas heaped with starry signs;

And, if they’re tripped, heel over crown,

By hidden coils of mighty vines,—

Perhaps the seraph, swift to pounce,

Will hale them, vexed, to God—and He

Will only laugh, remembering, once