By A Fair Pond Adonis Sat And Stared

By a fair pond Adonis sat and stared And in his gaze was glory of mid-day When the stark sun feeds itself on its glow And feeling it the more it glows and warms Like coursing blood of lovers newly made: Anon a maid of fair proportions tall And locks of gold and curled and tressed The fair Adonis by the pond espied: At which her heart inflamed at once like to Torches that burn alight on castle walls at night: She racing came over the green champagne And with a smile the flowers she ravished By her wild beauty: sweet the sun shone In all the glory of his warm mid-day and smiled: But in her haste she a wrong step took and Into a grisly well and deep fell unawares Whilst by the fairy pond Adonis sat and stared And in his gaze was glory of mid-day.