A
love I
dreamed of fleeing
Last night of strange lips kissing me
With subtle penetrating pain
A moon veil shrouded thee Thine eyes have in them
All the light of the moonlight of the sea
Thy eyes are beautiful and soft Like eyes of seraphim
Ah,
limpid,
liquid,
lustrous eyes Sad eyes half light,
half ***
Half without light,
half brighter bright Than the eyes
of seraphim
That strange magnetic glance That
gleams from those mystic eyes of air
That face so brilliantly pale
And yet with awe so fair
So
marvelously fair
That countenance
corpse-like refined
That subtle colored hair Thy slender
limbs that seem to burn
Thy vesture through with fire
That serpentine electric fog
Half quivering with
desire
Thy movements full of grace divine
That for those who look on thee
Feels new and
strange desire
The serpent
winds around his heart His soul is turned to fire
His steps are currents of hellfire I know,
I know that long ago The moon with silver feet
Grew to thy neck
and kissed thy forehead
sweet Giving thy lips strange wine to drink And alien
flesh
to eat
And
apples culled from the Dead Sea Which other serpents meet?
Fruit from the tree by the Dead Sea
Whose fruit is dead
to eat?