| He does not want human lips piously
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| kissing Hair Scented by the mountain breeze,
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| nor his brow, aglow now like the stars of the firmament.
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| But it is better to believe that while traversing Space
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| a star itself has descended out of orbit on this majestic brow,
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| and encircles it with a diamond’s brilliance as a Halo.
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| Night, waving sadness aside, adorns herself in all her charms
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| to celebrate the sleep of this incarnation of modesty,
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| this perfect image of angelic innocence.
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| The branches bend their lofty tufts over him
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| to protect him from the dew, and the wind…
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| twanging its tuneful harp sends
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| blithe strains across the universal silence
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| towards those lowered eyelids which,
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| motionless, seem to witness the cadenced concert of suspended worlds.
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| He dreams he is contented, that his corporeal nature has changed;
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| or at least that he has flown off
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| upon a purple cloud to another sphere
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| peopled by beings of the same kind as himself.
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| May his illusion last until Dawn’s Awakening!
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| He dreams the flowers dance round him
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| in a ring like immense demented garlands,
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| and impregnate him with their balmy
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| perfumes while he sings a hymn of love,
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| locked in the arms of a magically beautiful human being.
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| But it is merely twilight mist he embraces,
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| and when he wakes their arms will no longer be entwined.
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| Awaken not, hermaphrodite.
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| Do not open your eyes, I beg you, do not open your eyes.
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| Sleep forever. |
| Sleep forever. |