Faint as a phantom clothed in unseen silk:

Bright as a Naiad's limbs, from shine to shade

The runnel twinkled through the shaken brier;

Above the hills one long cloud, pulsed with fire,

Flashed like a great enchantment-welded blade.

And when the western sky seemed some weird land,

And night a witch's spell, at whose command

One sloping star fell green from heav'n; and deep

The warm rose opened, for the moth to sleep;

Then she, consenting, laid her hands in his,