1. You shed yourself like a dream of passion
Or a free, rebellious thought

2. So which genius vision of love
Melted you with its poetic passions

3. I think you are Eve after the fall
Wandering lost in the mortal world

4. With Adam gone to reap for her
The first fruits of the fertile earth

5. You slept, oblivious of the universe and beings
Like a lily of the flowering garden

6. And you went on, forsaken of heavens
To live in the garden of memory

7. Oh, if only I were a willow
Shading your flowing femininity

8. And if only I were a breeze in the air
Perfuming your aromatic breaths

9. You sleep, O beauty nonchalant
O charms so captivating