Cathay [SSC8 Time Travel Challenge]

© JP Asher 2026 _____________ Fain would I sway to far Cathay With love or lust, my lyre will play Encircle thee, as eyes entreat Away this day, to far Cathay Lain in the ray, partake, I say My roseate radiant lady gay As Venus heat seeps through the sheets Away this day, to far Cathay O, maiden fair, of eglantine Pray, gaze sublime, mine sign be thine...! Verdant star, no king thou art Thine eyes the true keys to mine heart Fain would I sway to far Cathay Away this day, to far Cathay! Cytherean sugar, sapphic bane Thy tawny tresses long again Prithee, fain would thou feel the same 'twould rend thine body sane in twain Such glee for thee on bended knee Thy little ream, thy dream with me...! Verdant star, no king thou art Thine eyes the true keys to mine heart Fain would I sway to far Cathay Away this day, to far Cathay! Past pallid Byzantium, the Bactrian battlements, away! With love or lust My lyre will play... Away this day... To far Cathay! Verdant star, no king thou art Thine eyes the true keys to mine heart Fain would I sway to far Cathay Away this day, to far Cathay! Verdant star, no king thou art Thine eyes the true keys to mine heart...! Fain would I sway to far Cathay... To far Cathay! Away this day, to far Cathay...