O happy hours!

O compensation ample for long days

Of what impatient tongues call wretchedness!

O beautiful, beneath the magic moon,

To walk the watery way of palaces!

O beautiful, o’ervaulted with gemmed blue,

This spacious court, with colour and with gold,

With cupolas, and pinnacles, and points,

And crosses multiplex, and tips and balls

(Wherewith the bright stars unreproving mix,