Ask not, great pasture-ground for human eyes!

My bliss! My bliss!

Stern belfry, rising as with lion's leap

Sheer from the soil in easy victory,

That fill'st the Square with peal resounding, deep,

Wert thou in French that Square's "accent aigu"?

Were I for ages set

In earth like thee, I know what silk-meshed net....

My bliss! My bliss!

Hence, music! First let darker shadows come,