II.

My love shall be the gorgeous sun that robes

With torrid summer and with idlenesses

Your body's naked slopes and hilly globes,

Showering its light upon you in caresses,

And this new brazier's contact shall be in

Tongues of an ambient gold that lick your skin.

The tragic, rolling red of dawn and eve,

And the day's beauty you shall be; with hues

Of splendour you a billowy robe shall weave;

Your flesh shall be like fabulous statues,

Which in the desert sang, and shone like roses,

When morning burned their blocks with apotheoses.

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