The populous constellations call that light
  The loveliest of the planets; and sometimes
  It floats along the spray of the salt sea,
  Or makes its chariot of a foggy cloud,
  Or walks through fields or cities while men sleep,
  Or o'er the mountain tops, or down the rivers,
  Or through the green waste wilderness, as now,
  Wondering at all it sees. Before Jove reigned
  It loved our sister Asia, and it came
  Each leisure hour to drink the liquid light
  Out of her eyes, for which it said it thirsted
  As one bit by a dipsas, and with her
  It made its childish confidence, and told her
  All it had known or seen, for it saw much,
  Yet idly reasoned what it saw; and called her,
  For whence it sprung it knew not, nor do I,
  Mother, dear mother.

THE SPIRIT OF THE EARTH, running to ASIA
  Mother, dearest mother!
  May I then talk with thee as I was wont?
  May I then hide my eyes in thy soft arms,
  After thy looks have made them tired of joy?
  May I then play beside thee the long noons,
  When work is none in the bright silent air?