To stray alone through dew-hung garden-glades;

And all the love unsealed within her breast

Flowed out from her to light the darkest shades.

Her quivering maiden-body could not hold

The sudden welling of love's loosened flood;

Through all her limbs it gushed, and in her blood

It stormed each throbbing pulse with blissful ache;

It seemed to spray the utmost glooms with gold,

And scatter glistening dews in every brake.

While yet she moved in rapture unafraid