The round green eyes and the long wavering bodies
Of the dark leopards1 of the moon?
All the wild witches, those most noble ladies,
For all their broom-sticks and their tears,
Their angry tears, are gone.
The holy centaurs2 of the hills are vanished;
I have nothing but the embittered3 sun;
Banished4 heroic mother moon and vanished,
And now that I have come to fifty years
I must endure the timid sun.