XXXVII.

It is a night of beauty: such a night

As, from the sparry grot or laurel-shade,

Or wave in marbled cavern rippling bright,

Might woo the nymphs of Grecian fount and glade

To sport beneath its moonbeams, which pervade

Their forest haunts; a night to rove alone

Where the young leaves by vernal winds are sway’d,

And the reeds whisper with a dreamy tone

Of melody that seems to breathe from worlds unknown;