Flung through the perfumed heavens of angel hands,

And, linked in tangled labyrinths and bands

Of soft rose-hearted flame and glimmer, rolled

One vast immensity of mazy gold,

He sang; like some hurt creature, desolate,

Heart-aching for the loss of some wild mate

Hounded and speared to death of heartless men

In old romantic Arden waste; and then

Turned to the moon that, like a polished stone

Of precious worth, low in the heaven shone,