Book V: Calamus - Earth, My Likeness

Earth, my likeness,
Though you look so impressive, ample and spheric there,
I now suspect that is not all;
I now suspect there is something fierce in you eligible to burst forth,
For an athlete is enamour'd of me, and I of him,
But toward him there is something fierce and terrible in me eligible
        to burst forth,
I dare not tell it in words, not even in these songs.