Fan the twin flames of
thy long hair
Life is in raptures of
the fair;
Nothing sullies beauty's
meadow,
Nor dims the sun's far
distant glow.
When the soothing wind
whisks away
The seeds of wheat and
strands of hay,
When damsels stroll in
paths nearby,
And full is cobalt in the
sky,
When songbirds sing their
tunes of love,
When earth is pleased of
God above;
So let the mirrored
beauty pass
Like breezes blown amid
the grass,
So let the cloudy
sculptures speak
Of hands of marble, long
and sleek,
Of brows of gold, of pale
comport,
Of warming eyes in gentle
thought;
And proud compression of
the lips
Whereat the nectared
lover sips;
Of hues of roses in thy
skin,
Of love's stirred rippled
dimpled grin,
Of all the percepts
beauty gives,
Where pleasure roams and
heaven lives.
O here where paradise is
air,
Life is in raptures of
the fair.
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