The vine-leaves adding whiteness to a brow

Already snow; his large eyes small with mirth; his dimpled cheeks aglow.

Silenus, with two Nymphs on either hand

Supporting him, uncertainly pursued —

To amorous passion for the purple grape yielding, though not subdued.

And after came a laughing, dancing rout,

Making the air insane with bacchanal cries;

Some bearing grapes which others stole and ate, with ruddy, twinkling eyes.

The eye of Bacchus drew me toward his car,

And stooping, he embraced, then lifted me