Like moonbeams glancing o’er the deep.

A snowy miracle of grace

Her circling arms, for whose embrace

Hyperion’s self might vainly sigh.

Oh! if within those arms to lie

To happy mortal e’er were given,

How tame were all the joys of heaven.

Sheltered by those endearing charms

From my own spirit’s dark alarms,

Endymion were not half so blest