Where triumph rang its brassy phrase, or love

Whispered a little out of tenderness—

She makes the willow shiver in the sun

For maidens who were wont to sit and gaze

Upon the grass, relinquished to their feet.

She causes boys to bring sweet-smelling pears

And plums in ponderous piles. The maidens taste

And stray impassioned in the littering leaves.

V

Supple and turbulent, a ring of men