ABSTRACT
‘Saloninus’. From The Artist, 2 January 1893. Beauty long sought for, incarnate, consummate Found but in marble serenely quiescent Wayward impetuously leapt into being With you and in you. Rapturous, exquisite past all concealment Love in a sigh breathed to perfect fruition Seeing unclothed unashamed in the sunlight Glad adolescence. Tremulous flesh in its riotous beauty Flashing yet delicate past all expressing The mirth of the world, and the joy of mere being; Life at its zenith. Eyes that fulfill all the yearnings of twilight Mouth that steals open like dawn o’er the ocean Figure more beautiful than (dared one imagine it) God in his boyhood. Now in thy nakedness, radiant, triumphant Known by the salt waves in amorous transport Kissed by the warm wind, caressed by the wavelets Monarch of beauty. Thus to have seen you is light for all ages Just to have dreamed you were rapture for ever But to have loved you is moment for lasting For ever immortal. Vibrant the future responds to your movement Sinuous curves round all living to loving Perfect contentment at last is accomplished Full and sufficient.
