"The Sleeping Gipsy": (Rousseau)

by SAMUEL FRENCH MORSE
THE poet, like the lion, needs
A noble fury of delight,
As Le Douanier knew, who saw
Poised in the frosty desert night
That wakeful beast whose golden eye
Betrays his hunger and his care
For Orpheus with a mandolin.
The sunburnt gipsy dreaming there.