At the sight of the beauty that greets them, for the charm they have broken.


I stand on the cliff and watch the veiled sun paling

A silver field afar in the mournful sea,

The scourge of the surf, and plaintive gulls sailing

At ease on the gale that smites the shuddering lea:

Whose smile severe and chaste

June never hath stirred to vanity, nor age defaced.