Are brilliant as the rainbow’s. Sapphire too
And silver lent their aid. Shells of each hue
Were curiously inlaid, and met the eyes
As things unearthly there. Such was that car
That shot its rich effulgency afar.
’Twas lined with down, soft as the swan’s white breast,
And far more glorious tinted than the crest
Of any bird that skims the earth or main.
Once a white plant that ’neath the waters grew,
Which the young nymphs that dwelt there, gathering knew