And the clear aspect which thy dwelling wears:

So, though in body absent, I might walk

With thee in thought and feeling, till thy mood

Did sanctify mine own to peerless good.”

“Alfred, I would that you beheld me now,

Sitting beneath a mossy ivied wall

On a quaint bench, which to that structure old

Winds an accordant curve. Above my head

_Dilates immeasurable a wild of leaves,_

Seeming received into the blue expanse