Lay me where soft Cyrene rambles down br In grove and garden to the sapphire sea; br Twine yellow roses for the drinker's crown; br Let music reach and fair heads circle me, br Watching blue ocean where the white sails steer br Fruit-laden forth or with the wares and news br Of merchant cities seek our harbors here, br Careless how Corinth fares, how Syracuse; br But here, with love and sleep in her caress, br Warm night shall sink and utterly persuade br The gentle doctrine Aristippus bare, -- br Night-winds, and one whose white youth's loveliness, br In a flowered balcony beside me laid, br Dreams, with the starlight on her fragrant hair.