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Come, my darling, let us dance

To the moon that beckons us

To dissolve our love in trance

Heedless of the hideous

Heat and hate of Sirius

Shun his baneful brilliance

Let us dance beneath the palm

Moving in the moonlight, frond

Wooing frond above the calm

Of the ocean diamond

Sparkling to the sky beyond

The enchantment of our psalm

Let us dance, my mirror of

Perfect passion won to peace

Let us dance, my treasure trove

On the marble terraces

Carven in pallid embroideries

For the vestal veil of Love

Heaven awakes to encompass us

Hell awakes its jubilance

In our hearts mysterious

Marriage of the azure expanse

With the scarlet brilliance

Of the moon with Sirius

Velvet swatches our lissome limbs

Languid lapped by sky and sea

Soul through sense and spirit swims

Through the pregnant porphyry

Dome of lapiz lazuli

Heart of silence, hush our hymns

Come my darling, let us dance

Through the golden galaxies

Rhythmic swell of circumstance

Beaming passion’s argosies

Ecstasy entwined with ease

Terrene joy transcending trance

Thou my scarlet concubine

Draining heart’s blood to the lees

To empurple those divine

Lips with living luxuries

Life importunate to appease

Drought insatiable of wine

Tunis in the tremendous trance

Rests from day’s incestuous

Traffic with the radiance

Of her sire and over us

Gleams the intoxicating glance

Of the moon and Sirius