LXXXI
Reading edition
Hark, love, to the tambourines Of the minstrels in the street, And one voice that throbs and soars Clear above the clashing time!
Some Egyptian royal love-lilt, 5 Some Sidonian refrain, Vows of Paphos or of Tyre, Mount against the silver sun.
Pleading, piercing, yet serene, Vagrant in a foreign town, 10 From what passion was it born, In what lost land over sea?