Its faint stars fading from a solemn sky,

Where mighty clouds before the dawn grew red:

Were these things round me? Such o’er memory sweep

Wildly, when aught brings back that burial of the deep.

LIX.

Then the broad, lonely sunrise!—and the plash

Into the sounding waves![305] Around her head

They parted, with a glancing moment’s flash,

Then shut—and all was still. And now thy bed

Is of their secrets, gentlest Leonor!