The walls were spray’d with showers of light,

Whose flickerings left a fountain bright

That toss’d the moonbeams in its play,

And dash’d and flash’d their gleams away.

I just could see the fountain flow

Within a marble court[1] below.

It seem’d a spirit, clothed in white,

But half reveal’d to mortal sight,

Whose glancing robes would lift and glide

O’er dainty limbs that danced inside,