Strong from his bath, to wrestle with the trees,

A thewy hero; and, alas! too soon

Our scutcheoned oriel stained was overstrewn

Of Dawn's air-jewels; then I sang a strain

Of sleep that in my memory strives again:

"Ethereal limbed the lovely Sleep should sit,

Her starbeam locks with some vague splendor lit,

Like that the glow-worm's emerald radiance sheds

Thro' twilight dew-drops globed on lily-beds.

Her face as fair as if of graven stone,