Tell, if thou canst, and truly, whence doth come <br />This camphire, storax, spikenard, galbanum, <br />These musks, these ambers, and those other smells <br />Sweet as the Vestry of the Oracles. <br />I'll tell thee:—while my Julia did unlace <br />Her silken bodice but a breathing space, <br />The passive air such odour then assumed <br />As when to Jove great Juno goes perfumed, <br />Whose pure immortal body doth transmit <br />A scent that fills both heaven and earth with it.<br /><br />Robert Herrick<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/upon-julia-s-unlacing-herself/
