Of my dear western window! where the beams

Of the departing sun do wanton lurk

To kiss thy blushing flowers, or with bright gleams

To peep through all thine ever opening seams,

When gentle breezes are at play with thee!

Dear to my heart thy curtain’d verdure! Dreams

Of former joyous days thou bring’st to me,

When as a child I roam’d where vines were waving free.

III.

I do bethink me of the jessamine,