• A Violet in her lovely hair,
    A rose upon her bosom fair!
        But O, her eyes
    A lovelier violet disclose,
    And her ripe lips the sweetest rose
        That ’s ’neath the skies.

    A lute beneath her graceful hand
    Breathes music forth at her command;
        But still her tongue
    Far richer music calls to birth
    Than all the...