This oddity of a work is infused with the mixture of Seranoga’s beloved ‘Maria’ and the more earthly sexualised conception -Mary Magdelene. Maudlin is clearly a play on ‘Magdelene’, and ‘He’ maybe the bisexual Seranoga himself, enjoying the perversity of being one of his beloved ‘Marys’. The rest of the verse is riddled with mythic/occult references which the reader can make of what she will.
