Columned, wreathed and ribbon-wound,)—

In the forest I have found

But a ruin! All around

Lie the shattered capitals,

And vast fragments of the walls ...

Like a climbing cloud,—that plies,

Wind-wrecked, o'er the moon that lies

'Neath its blackness,—taking on

Gradual certainties of wan,

Soft assaults of easy white,