Whose wanton babble, as it swell’d or sank,

Gave idle voice to silence and repose.

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Thro’ doors beneath the further colonnade,

Like a deep cup’s reflected glooms of gold,

The inner rooms glow’d with inviting shade:

And, standing in the court, she might behold

Cedar, and silk, and silver; and that all

The pargeting of ceiling and of wall

Was fresco’d o’er with figures manifold.