Turn on your side and bear the day to me br Beloved, sceptre-struck, immured br In the glass wall of sleep. Slowly br Uncloud the borealis of your eye br And show your iceberg secrets, your midnight prizes br To the green-eyed world and to me. Sin br Coils upward into thin air when you awaken br And again morning announces amnesty over br The serpent-kingdomed bed. Your mother br Watched with as dove an eye the unforgivable night br Sigh backward into innocence when you br Set a bright monument in her amorous sea. br Look down, Undine, on the trident that struck br Sons from the rock of vanity. Turn in the world br Sceptre-struck, spellbound, beloved, br Turn in the world and bear the day to me.