1. ۱All I can say is--I saw it!
2. ۲The room was as bare as your hand.
3. ۳I locked in the swarth little lady,--I swear,
4. ۴From the head to the foot of her--well, quite as bare!
5. ۵"No Nautch shall cheat me," said I, "taking my stand
6. ۶At this bolt which I draw!" And this bolt--I withdraw it,
7. ۷And there laughs the lady, not bare, but embowered
8. ۸With--who knows what verdure, o'erfruited, o'erflowered?
9. ۹Impossible! Only--I saw it!
10. ۱۰
11. ۱۱All I can sing is--I feel it!
12. ۱۲This life was as blank as that room;
13. ۱۳I let you pass in here. Precaution, indeed?
14. ۱۴Walls, ceiling, and floor,--not a chance for a weed!
15. ۱۵Wide opens the entrance: where's cold, now, where's gloom?
16. ۱۶No May to sow seed here, no June to reveal it,
17. ۱۷Behold you enshrined in these blooms of your bringing,
18. ۱۸These fruits of your bearing--nay, birds of your winging!
19. ۱۹A fairy-tale! Only--I feel it!