I + 

In midmost Ind, beside Hydaspes cool, + 

There stood, or hover’d, tremulous in the air, + 

A faery city, ’neath the potent rule + 

Of Emperor Elfinan; fam’d ev’rywhere + 

For love of mortal women, maidens fair, + 

Whose lips were solid, whose soft hands were made + 

Of a fit mould and beauty, ripe and rare, + 

To pamper his slight wooing, warm yet staid: + 

He loved girls smooth as shades, but hated a mere shade. + 