Within my ears your Spanish speech made moan;

I saw nor mud, mist, gray, wet streets; there came

As in a vision, Spain of splendid name.

Your castle in Love’s Land—there, we, alone!

Gone! Gone! Here by the window now I wait

For him to whom I owe yet give not love;

Watching the bird-winged night drop from above,

Grouped church spires, like frail hands up-flung to Fate,

On windows through which answering night lights chime,

I hear the passionless, cold rain of Winter time!