A moment of Victoriana...
Just because it's been stuck in my head for two days now.
". . . Ah, Iokanaan, Iokanaan, thou wert the man that I loved alone among men! All other men were hateful to me. But thou wert beautiful!
Thy body was a column of ivory set upon feet of silver.
It was a garden full of doves and lilies of silver.
It was a tower of silver decked with shields of ivory.
There was nothing in the world so white as thy body.
There was nothing in the world so black as thy hair.
In the whole world there was nothing so red as thy mouth.
Thy voice was a censer that scattered strange perfumes, and when I looked on thee I heard a strange music.
Ah! wherefore didst thou not look at me, Iokanaan?
With the cloak of thine hands, and with the cloak of thy blasphemies thou didst hide thy face. Thou didst put upon thine eyes the covering of him who would see his God.
Well, thou hast seen thy God, Iokanaan, but me, me, thou didst never see."
--Oscar Wilde Salome: A Tragedy in One Act
http://etext.virginia.edu/subjects/salome/salome2.html
". . . Ah, Iokanaan, Iokanaan, thou wert the man that I loved alone among men! All other men were hateful to me. But thou wert beautiful!
Thy body was a column of ivory set upon feet of silver.
It was a garden full of doves and lilies of silver.
It was a tower of silver decked with shields of ivory.
There was nothing in the world so white as thy body.
There was nothing in the world so black as thy hair.
In the whole world there was nothing so red as thy mouth.
Thy voice was a censer that scattered strange perfumes, and when I looked on thee I heard a strange music.
Ah! wherefore didst thou not look at me, Iokanaan?
With the cloak of thine hands, and with the cloak of thy blasphemies thou didst hide thy face. Thou didst put upon thine eyes the covering of him who would see his God.
Well, thou hast seen thy God, Iokanaan, but me, me, thou didst never see."
--Oscar Wilde Salome: A Tragedy in One Act
http://etext.virginia.edu/subjects/salome/salome2.html