Hence has the Goddess, Nature’s earliest Power,
And greatest
and most present, with her dower
Of the transcendent beauty, gained
repute
For meditated guile. She laughs to hear
A charge
her garden’s labyrinths scarce confute,
Her garden’s
histories tell of to all near.
Let it be said, But less upon her
guile
Doth she rely for her immortal smile.
Still let the
rumour spread, and terror screens
To push her conquests by the
simplest means.
While man abjures not lustihead, nor swerves
From
earth’s good labours, Beauty’s Queen he serves.
Her spacious garden and her garden’s grant
She offers
in reward for handsome cheer:
Choice of the nymphs whose looks
will slant
The secret down a dewy leer
Of corner eyelids into
haze:
Many a fair Aphrosyne
Like flower-bell to honey-bee:
And
here they flicker round the maze
Bewildering him in heart and head:
And
here they wear the close demure,
With subtle peeps to reassure:
Others
parade where love has bled,
And of its crimson weave their mesh:
Others
to snap of fingers leap,
As bearing breast with love asleep.
These
are her laughters in the flesh.
Or would she fit a warrior mood,
She
lights her seeming unsubdued,
And indicates the fortress-key.
Or
is it heart for heart that craves,
She flecks along a run of waves
The
one to promise deeper sea.
Bands of her limpid primitives,
Or patterned in the curious
braid,
Are the blest man’s; and whatsoever he gives
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