He touched me, so I live to know

      That such a day, permitted so,

      I groped upon his breast.

It was a boundless place to me,

And silenced, as the awful sea

      Puts minor streams to rest.

And now, I'm different from before,

As if I breathed superior air,

      Or brushed a royal gown;

My feet, too, that had wandered so,

My gypsy face transfigured now

      To tenderer renown.