A lady—to whose lip and cheek

Some twenty summer suns have given

Colors as rich as those that melt

Along the evening clouds of Heaven.

Her stature tall, her tresses dark,

Her brow like light in ambush lying,

Her hand—the very hand I’d give

The world to clasp if I were dying!

Her eyes, the glowing types of love,

Upon the heart they print their meaning⁠—