Of summer’s sky in beauty bending o’er him;

The city bright below; and far away

Sparkling in light, his own romantic bay.

“Tall spire, and glittering roof, and battlement,

And banners floating in the sunny air,

And white sails o’er the calm blue waters bent,

Green isle, and circling shore, are blended there

In wild reality. When life is old,

And many a scene forgot, the heart will hold

“Its memory of this; nor lives there one