Canto 16Estelle
Book 1. Part One - England and Baroda 1883 – 1898
Why do thy lucid eyes survey,
Estelle, their sisters in the milky way?
The blue heavens cannot see
Thy beauty nor the planets praise.
5Blindly they walk their old accustomed ways.
Turn hither for felicity.
My body’s earth thy vernal power declares,
My spirit is a heaven of thousand stars,
And all these lights are thine and open doors on thee.