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And Valisnerian lotus, thither flown
From struggling with the waters of the Rhone:
[1]And thy most lovely purple perfume, Zante!
Isola d'oro! – Fior di Levante!
[2]And the Nelumbo bud that floats for ever
With Indian Cupid down the holy river –
Fair flowers, and fairy! to whose care is given
[3]To bear the Goddess' song, in odours, up to Heaven:
"Spirit! that dwellest where,
In the deep sky,
The terrible and fair,
In beauty vie!
Beyond the line of blue –
The boundary of the star
Which turneth at the view
Of thy barrier and thy bar –
Of the barrier overgone
- ↑ And thy most lovely purple perfume: The Hyacinth.
- ↑ Indian Cupid: It is a fiction of the Indians, that Cupid was first seen floating in one of these down the river Ganges – and that he still loves the cradle of his childhood.
- ↑ To bear the Goddess' song, in odours, up to Heaven: And golden vials full of odours which are the prayers of the saints. — Rev. St. John.
