The day, lying faded and fair

In his chamber of purple and vair.—

When, above it, you see her uncover

Her star-girdled darkness of hair—

Gold-hooped with the gold of the even—

And for the day's burial prepare,

The spirit of night in the heaven,

O'er that vale, is most hauntingly fair;

So fair that you wish it were given

That you in the rays of her hair,