Those glittering pearls and ruby lips, whose kiss

Was sweeter far than honey to the taste.

As when the merchant opes a precious box

Of perfume, such an odor from her breath

Comes toward me, harbinger of her approach;

Or like an untouched meadow, where the rain

Hath fallen freshly on the fragrant herbs

That carpet all its pure untrodden soil:

A meadow where the fragrant rain-drops fall

Like coins of silver in the quiet pools,