My beauty, my love, you have bound me
As only you can do.
Wrap your arms and legs around me,
And your agile body too.
And now in might embraces
Entwining and holding on
The most beautiful serpent faces
The happiest Laocoon.
The rose, the lily, the sun and the dove,
I loved them all once in the rapture of love.
I love them no more, for my sole delight
Is a maiden so slight, so bright and so white,
Who, being herself the source of love,
Is rose and lily and sun and dove.