Bethsabe bathing

W. Bergsma

Hot sun, cool fire, tempered with sweet air,

Black shade, fair nurse, shadow my white hair:

Shine, sun; burn, fire; breathe, air, and ease me;

Black shade, fair nurse, shroud me, and please me:

Shadow, my sweet nurse, keep me from burning,

Make not my glad cause, cause of mourning.

Let not my beauty's fire

Inflame unstaid desire,

Nor pierce any bright eye

That wandereth lightly.