And nameless shapes that hover’d round;

Such was the wizard power of sound!

XXIV.

Methought all lovely forms were nigh,

And Beauty, with a tearful eye

Dewing the couch where I lay to die,

And singing my soul away.

And I said, fair beings, ’tis well ye know,

And the soul of a poet would have it so,

The lovely have been my friends below,