Close my darling both your eyes

Let your arms lie still at last

Calm the lake of falsehood lies

And the wind of lust has passed

Waves across these hopeless sands

Fill my heart and end my day

Underneath your moving hands

All my aching flows away

Even the human pyramids

Blaze with such a longing now:

Close, my love, your trembling lids

Let the midnight heal your brow

Northward flames Orion’s horn

Westward th’ Egyptian light

None to watch us, none to warn

But the blind eternal night