With lathe of viewless hyaline...

With lathe of viewless hyaline,

She shapes the shell and scale and fin,

Dropping unseen her pearls of moonlight,

And blushes all as her kith and kin.

Distaff of light is in her hand,

From which she spins the lily, and

The sendal robes of field and forest,

With dewy odors in every strand.

And from her snow-white palette's dyes

She paints the peacock's hundred eyes,

The robin's egg, the apple blossom,

And domes the world with her sapphire skies.