No sound, no stir, but cool repose.

A calm soft sleep was in the air,

And every breeze, that whisper’d there,

Came sweet as from a seraph’s mouth,

With odours from the sunny South.

And so the garden-walks along

I saunter’d pleas’d, and humming song,

And knew that Heaven itself above,

Did keep with Earth that feast of Love.

LXXXV.