And even the heavens, wherein one star shone clear,

Seemed leaning nearer, his glad song to hear,

To which its wild star throbbed, all golden-pale:

And after which, deep in the purple vale,

Awoke the passion of the nightingale.

III

As one hath seen a green-gowned huntress fair,

Morn in her cheeks and midnight in her hair;

Keen eyes as gray as rain, young limbs as lithe

As the wild fawn's; and silvery voice as blithe