light reveries follow her and command that she never again leave this city a cast of riotous thousands of which I had forgotten are hanging about me, shyly — my garland of wasted poesies hang where no rain has fallen and in a rather weak manner she’s confessed in barren words so strange and feverish, that her blossomed eyes made her unfit for a better place outside in the dusted earth it was the same story sally forth and you will be sacrificed here the altar shares the same hue, like me it is dark and fiery full of the forgotten lies of a thousand crazy devils
far afield the handsome hide the conquered enemy that tyrants fear to kiss while the young hold open their graves Did I confess that I had almost been his wife? the pleasant secret wasted my time (such doomed gibberish)
I’d like to know without asking what it was that I saw in the mirror — smoky shadows departed — a lavender blush exploding into a strange madness, by heaven, I am guilty but like my gentle queen I am haunted, great and solemn
she’d been amused by its black coat, its eyes and hair, but my wild stallion rests alone in a purple wilderness, not quite of Damascus where a corridor of tears are metal-steeled for glory and a monstrous cascade of forget-me-nots are placed between my toes so that I should love that murderer (me, an effigy?) it seemed a shame but which way the city?
they’d brought the men out just so far in strength and found that their monsters were ruined by the twilight I myself fancied stillness rather like melted wax and might lay here sleeping, forever