Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition

Les Ballons (Author: Oscar Wilde)

p.124

1. AGAINST these turbid turquoise skies
   The light and luminous balloons
   Dip and drift like satin moons,
   Drift like silken butterflies;
2. Reel with every windy gust,
   Rise and reel like dancing girls,
   Float like strange transparent pearls,
   Fall and float like silver dust.
3. Now to the low leaves they cling,
   Each with coy fantastic pose,
   Each a petal of a rose
   Straining at a gossamer string.

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p.125

4. Then to the tall trees they climb,
   Like thin globes of amethyst,
   Wandering opals keeping tryst
   With the rubies of the lime.