To South, East, West and North, 
Iceland, the Indies, Sicily, and Spain.  .  .  .  . 
Lo !  men have heard of all these ships not one, not one 
for ever more again. 
 
VIII 
 
EEING your naked body in the bed 
  Against the jetty silk, I thought you lay 
Just as the Milky Way 
Lies in the unkenned hollows of the sky. 
One swarthy ray of red 
Leapt from your hither eye, 
And straight my dream began 
To map that heaven—your eye, Aldeboran ! 
I launched the magic boat, and early found 
The Pirate’s cave and the Enchaunted Ground ; 
The cedared Lebanon, 
The Wizard’s Grot, the well of spice, 
The Hanging Gardens of great Babylon :— 
All these then did I visit in a trice, 
And even did confirm the Bible tale 
By playing Jonah to your Jonah’s whale. 
So, to the stars ! 
 
 
8 
S