How Wild, How Wild Your Charmed Eyes

How wild, how wild your charmed eyes Look over the sea-waves my child And all your hair’s a-fluttering: The sea-breeze murmurs full Like to the entering sea in magic nights When hills and caves and walls and stones Rise move and walk and laugh and talk When the half-moon unseen by human eyes Sheds tears of joy and smiles – wanton lover Too, too wanton lover of the night This white and silent moon presents its suit To the full sensous Night draped sole In sole transparent mantle dark whereon The moon mischevous lover! Throws Its faint rays discovering the warm breasts And sensous limbs by Jovian gods new-forged Of the lone-coming Night, the sensous Night Drowning slowly in the small bay wherein It swims where shallow waters ride Into the bay, to make love with the rocks That move from their long sleep The sleep they slept since times archean old When hot and staid from earth they were before they cooled Into the long, long years that after came Into the satyr nights alas! Long gone and now Coming but rare in that cove all unseen unknown This long, long night Now finished swimming its sensous limbs Stretches in the moon’s light suitor-admiring And still the silent bay dreams without a stir. So come, so come this night my child This magic night, this Merlin night How wild, how wild your charmed eyes Look over the sea-waves my child And all your hair’s a-fluttering And the sea-breeze now murmurs to the full.