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15 Seen but in beauty – not impeding sight Of other beauty glittering thro' the light – A wreath that twined each starry form around, And all the opal'd air in color bound.

All hurriedly she knelt upon a bed Of flowers: of lilies such as rear'd the head On the fair Capo Deucato, and sprang So eagerly around about to hang Upon the flying footsteps of – deep pride – Of her who lov'd a mortal – and so died. The Sephalica, budding with young bees, Upreared its purple stem around her knees:&mdash; And gemmy flower, of Trebizond misnam'd – Inmate of highest stars, where erst it sham'd All other loveliness: – its honied dew (The fabled nectar that the heathen knew) Deliriously sweet, was dropp'd from Heaven, And fell on gardens of the unforgiven In Trebizond – and on a sunny flower So like its own above that, to this hour,