Cissus, you keeper of the shadows
 Scaling my stone, Terrace aswarm
 In summer


 Cissus, you tremble at my window
 Winding upward, wind threw your limbs
 Asunder

 Even blooms that blinked now are open
 Vines on my fence are now over and out

 Cissus
 She will curl to me when I'm folded
 Cissus
 She will drag the book from my hands

 Even blooms that blinked now are open
 Vines on my fence are now over and out

 Cissus, Victorian and thethered
 Circle my spire, zenith your heights
 Oh lover