Or had you shameful secret quests and did you harry to your home + 

Some Nereid coiled in amber foam with curious rock crystal breasts? + 

Or did you treading through the froth call to the brown Sidonian + 

For tidings of Leviathan, Leviathan or Behemoth? + 

Or did you when the sun was set climb up the cactus-covered slope + 

To meet your swarthy Ethiop whose body was of polished jet? + 

Or did you while the earthen skiffs dropped down the grey Nilotic flats + 

At twilight and the flickering bats flew round the temple’s triple glyphs + 

Steal to the border of the bar and swim across the silent lake + 

And slink into the vault and make the Pyramid your lúpanar + 

Till from each black sarcophagus rose up the painted swathèd dead? + 

Or did you lure unto your bed the ivory-horned Tragelaphos? + 

Or did you love the god of flies who plagued the Hebrews and was splashed + 

With wine unto the waist? or Pasht, who had green beryls for her eyes? + 

Or that young god, the Tyrian, who was more amorous than the dove + 

Of Ashtaroth? or did you love the god of the Assyrian + 

Whose wings, like strange transparent talc, rose high above his hawk-faced head, + 

Painted with silver and with red and ribbed with rods of Oreichalch? + 

Or did huge Apis from his car leap down and lay before your feet + 

Big blossoms of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured nenuphar? + 