A kind of twilight break, which through the air,[39]

As from an orient cloud, glimps'd[40] here and there;320

And round about the chamber this false morn

Brought forth the day before the day was born.

So Hero's ruddy cheek Hero betray'd,

And her all naked to his sight display'd:

Whence his admiring eyes more pleasure took

Than Dis,[41] on heaps of gold fixing his look.

By this, Apollo's golden harp began

To sound forth music to the ocean;