Struck from the clambering vines Eolian songs,

That mingled with the splashing noise of founts,

In music such as stirs to passionate thought:

This peerless land was thronged with souls like mine,

Straying from East to South, impelled unseen,

And lost, like mine, in its enchanted vales:—

Souls that conversed apart in pairs, or sang

Low breeze-like airs, more tender than sweet words;

Save here and there a wanderer like myself,

Dreaming alone, and dropping silent tears,