Canto 9On a Satyr and Sleeping Love
Book 1. Part One - England and Baroda 1883 – 1898
Me whom the purple mead that Bromius owns
And girdles rent of amorous girls did please,
Now the inspired and curious hand decrees
That waked quick life in these quiescent stones,
5To yield thee water pure. Thou lest the sleep
Yon perilous boy unchain, more softly creep.
PLATO