"Give me a blue ribbon... "

Give me a blue ribbon - I will hand it back
Without delay...
Or give me the shadow of your supple neck:
- No ! not the shadow.

The shadow will change when you wave,
It does not lie.
Now there is nothing I desire, lovely maid,
I take my arm away...

God's past rewards
Were lesser things:
A leaf stuck to a window pane,
A drop of rain.