To the sweet pathos of its rhymes.

I trilled the music o'er and o'er,

And happy, gazed upon the scene,

Thinking that there had never been

So blue a sea, so fair a shore.

A vague half dream was in my mind;

I hardly saw how sat the sun;

I noted not the day was gone

The rosy western hills behind.

'Till, soft as if Apollo blew