The days and nights illume the world for me?

And how I muse on marriage, as I bow

In God's own places, with a throbbing brow?

And how, at night, I dream of kissing thee?"

XIII.

But thou did'st answer: "First behold this man!

He is thy lord, for love's and lady's sake;

He is thy master, or I much mistake."

And I perceiv'd, hard by, a phantom wan

And wild and kingly, who did, walking, span