XV.
Her eyebrows' arch with pencilled lines she builded,
And touched each underlid with jetty dye,
Drew the long lashes separate, and gilded
Her flesh with palm-flow'r dust, to beautify
The ambered satin of her nape and neck;
And deftly with red henna did she deck
Her eyebrows' arch with pencilled lines she builded,
And touched each underlid with jetty dye,
Drew the long lashes separate, and gilded
Her flesh with palm-flow'r dust, to beautify
The ambered satin of her nape and neck;
And deftly with red henna did she deck
XVI.
Her slender finger-tips; and washed with myrrh
Her long black tresses, braiding them in strings
Which, from the queenly gleaming crown of her
Swung to her knees, banded with beads and rings:
And, 'thwart her breasts—like lotus-blossoms blown—
A purple, spangled, sindon hath she thrown.
Her slender finger-tips; and washed with myrrh
Her long black tresses, braiding them in strings
Which, from the queenly gleaming crown of her
Swung to her knees, banded with beads and rings:
And, 'thwart her breasts—like lotus-blossoms blown—
A purple, spangled, sindon hath she thrown.
XVII.
Then she bade summon that fair Hebrew boy:
Who came, with palms across his faint heart folded,
Then she bade summon that fair Hebrew boy:
Who came, with palms across his faint heart folded,
