XXXIX + 

They kiss’d nine times the carpet’s velvet face + 

Of glossy silk, soft, smooth, and meadow-green, + 

Where the close eye in deep rich fur might trace + 

A silver tissue, scantly to be seen, + 

As daisies lurk’d in June-grass, buds in green; + 

Sudden the music ceased, sudden the hand + 

Of majesty, by dint of passion keen, + 

Doubled into a common fist, went grand, + 

And knock’d down three cut glasses, and his best ink-stand. + 