Crossword-Solution: NECTAROUS 9 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

THE NAIADS' MUSIC (From 'A Faun's Holiday') Come, ye sorrowful, and steep Your tired brows in a nectarous sleep: For our kisses lightlier run Than the traceries of the sun By the lolling water cast Up grey precipices vast, Lifting smooth and warm and steep Out of the palely shimmering deep.

Come, ye sorrowful, for here No voices sound but fond and clear Of mouths as lorn as is the rose That under water doth disclose, Amid her crimson petals torn, A heart as golden as the morn; And here are tresses languorous As the weeds wander over us, And brows as holy and as bland As the honey-coloured sand Lying sun-entranced below The lazy water's limpid flow: Come, ye sorrowful, and steep Your tired brows in a nectarous sleep.

Fruits of all hues barbaric gloom-- Pomegranate, quince and peach and plum, Mandarine, grape, and cherry clear Englobe each glassy chandelier, Where nectarous flowers their sweets distil-- Jessamine, tuberose, chamomill, Wild-eye narcissus, anemone, Tendril of ivy and vinery.

The clear signs of his Fulfilment are not hidden, whensoever the chamber of the purple-robed Hours is opened, and nectarous flowers lead in the fragrant spring.

The poet is sitting at night-fall upon a green meadow-bank, with his little daughter by his side, looking at the setting sun, and the twilight exhalations colored by its evening beams: "----Here will we sit, The while the sun goes down the glowing west, And drink the balmy air Exhaling from the meadows; the nectarous breath Which EARTH sends upward _when her lord, the Sun_, _Kisses her cheek at parting_." There is action as well as vitality in this beautiful simile.