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The sacred drums of serpents' skins Send forth their muffled roar afar; Before the shrine the opal spins, A changing star! That flashes rays of rainbow light From out its breast of cloudy white, Rebuking sins Which mar!
Oh, see the maidens forward bound, To swing and sway in dances wild, Loose locks with fragrant chaplets crowned, Their glances mild! Exchanged for looks, whose frantic fires The sacred god himself inspires, Who thrice hath frowned, And smiled.