Its moaning surges manifold.

3.

Often at evening, gazing through

The eastward windows on such a view,

Its sense enwrapt him as with a shroud;

Often at noon, in the city’s crowd,

He saw, as ’twere in a mystic glass,

Unbidden faces before him pass:

A soldier, with eyes unawed and mild

As the eyes of one who was his child;