Making its bank green gems along the wild,

There, too, she linger’d, from the diamond wave

Drawing bright water for his rosy lips,

And softly parting clusters of jet curls

To bathe his brow. At last the fane was reach’d,

The earth’s one sanctuary—and rapture hush’d

Her bosom, as before her, through the day,

It rose, a mountain of white marble, steep’d

In light like floating gold. But when that hour

Waned to the farewell moment, when the boy