The vacant eye on viewless matter glares,

Our feelings still upon our views attend,

And their own natures to the objects lend:

Sorrow and joy are in their influence sure,

Long as the passion reigns th’ effects endure;

But Love in minds his various changes makes,

And clothes each object with the change he takes;

His light and shade on every view he throws,

And on each object what he feels bestows.

Fair was the morning, and the month was June,