LII.

And a clear sparkle in her glance, yet wild,

And quick, and eager, like the flashing gaze

Of some all-wondering and awakening child,

That first the glories of the earth surveys.

How could it thus deceive me? She had worn

Around her, like the dewy mists of morn,

A pensive tenderness through happiest days;

And a soft world of dreams had seem’d to lie

Still in her dark, and deep, and spiritual eye.