And light green tendrils?

Father. Thou hast mark’d it well.

Yes! a pale, starry, dreamy-looking flower,

As from a land of spirits! To mine eye

Those faint, wan petals—colourless, and yet

Not white, but shadowy—with the mystic lines

(As letters of some wizard language gone)

Into their vapour-like transparence wrought,

Bear something of a strange solemnity,

Awfully lovely!—and the Christian’s thought