LXII.

The wind rose free and singing: when for ever,

O’er that sole spot of all the watery plain,

I could have bent my sight with fond endeavour

Down, where its treasure was, its glance to strain

Then rose the reckless wind! Before our prow

The white foam flash’d—ay, joyously, and thou

Wert left with all the solitary main

Around thee—and thy beauty in my heart,

And thy meek, sorrowing love—oh! where could that depart?