He heeds no longer how star after star

Looks forth on the night, as the hour grows late.

He heeds not the snow-wreaths lifted and cast

From a thousand boughs by the rising blast.

His thoughts are alone of those who dwell

In the halls of frost and snow,

Who pass where the crystal domes upswell

From the alabaster floors below,

Where the frost-trees shoot with leaf and spray,

And frost-gems scatter a silvery day.