• Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
    Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;
    Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font:
    The firefly wakens: waken thou with me.
    Now droops the milkwhite peacock like a ghost,
    And like a ghost she glimmers on to me.
    Now lies the Earth all Danae to the stars,
    And all thy heart lies open unto me.
    Now slides the...