Of the blue, mournful seas, that keep the dead:

But they are far! The low sun here pervades

Dim forest arches, bathing with red gold

Their stems, till each is made a marvel to behold,—

LXXIV.

Gorgeous, yet full of gloom! In such an hour,

The vesper-melody of dying bells

Wanders through Spain, from each gray convent’s tower

O’er shining rivers pour’d and olive dells,

By every peasant heard, and muleteer,