darer's

Updated: May 13, 2025

Wild cries of riot answer him; the rosy cloud grows denser round him; entrancing perfumes hem him in and steal away his senses. In the most seductive of half-lights his wonder-seeing eye beholds a female form indicible; he hears a voice that sweetly murmurs out the siren call, which promises contentment of the darer's wildest wishes: Venus herself it is, this woman who appears to him.

Henry Edward Krehbiel - A Book of Operas : Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music