A neck that said a thousand things unthinking,

And soft as if ’twere only fashioned for

A pillow to support a loved head sinking

Beneath the draught, deliriously drinking,

Of her resistless beauty; and her eyes

Were open volumes, which, like planets blinking,

Seemed saying, “Read us, all around us lies

The starry Infinite—the realm of Mysteries.”

Her thoughts environed me, for with a smile

And gesture of her hand, the group arose;