Fancy

Far in the Further East the skilful craftsman

Fashioned this fancy for the West’s delight.

This rose and azure Dragon, crouching softly

Upon the satin skin, close-grained and white.

And you lay silent, while his slender needles

Pricked the intricate pattern on your arm,

Combining deftly Cruelty and Beauty,

That subtle union, whose child is charm.

Charm irresistible: the lovely something

We follow in our dreams, but may not reach.

The unattainable Divine Enchantment,

Hinted in music, never heard in speech.

This from the blue design exhales towards me,

As incense rises from the Homes of Prayer,

While the unfettered eyes, allured and rested,

Urge the forbidden lips to stoop and share;

Share in the sweetness of the rose and azure

Traced in the Dragon’s form upon the white

Curve of the arm. Ah, curb thyself, my fancy,

Where would’st thou drift in this enchanted flight?

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• The Deserted Garden by Alan Seeger
• The Bayadere by Alan Seeger
• The Aisne by Alan Seeger
• Tezcotzinco by Alan Seeger
• Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her by Alan Seeger
• Sonnet Xv by Alan Seeger
• Sonnet Xiv by Alan Seeger
• Sonnet Xiii by Alan Seeger
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• Sonnet Xi by Alan Seeger
• Sonnet X by Alan Seeger
• Sonnet Viii by Alan Seeger
• Sonnet Vii by Alan Seeger
• Sonnet Vi by Alan Seeger
• Sonnet V by Alan Seeger
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