(3)

[Add. MSS. 35,343, f. 3 recto.]

High o'er the rocks at night I rov'd
To forget the form I lov'd.
Image of Lewti! from my mind
Depart: for Lewti is not kind. 25

Bright was the Moon: the Moon's bright bea[m]
Speckled with many a moving shade,
Danc'd upon Tamaha's stream;
But brightlier on the Rock it play'd,
The Rock, half-shelter'd from my view 30
By pendent boughs of tressy Yew!
True to Love, but false to Rest,
My fancy whisper'd in my breast—
So shines my Lewti's forehead fair
Gleaming thro' her sable hair! 35
Image of Lewti! from my mind
Depart—for Lewti is not kind.

I saw a Cloud of whitest hue—
Onward to the Moon it pass'd.
Still brighter and more bright it grew 40
With floating colours not a few,
Till it reach'd the Moon at last:
Then the Cloud was wholly bright
With a rich and amber light!
deep
And so with many a hope I seek, 45
And so with joy I find my Lewti:
And even so my pale wan cheek
Drinks in as deep a flush of Beauty
[[1052]] Image of Lewti! leave my mind
If Lewti never will be kind! 50

Away the little Cloud, away.
Away it goes—away so soon
alone
Alas! it has no power to stay:
It's hues are dim, it's hues are grey
Away it passes from the Moon. 55
And now tis whiter than before—
As white as my poor cheek will be,
When, Lewti! on my couch I lie
A dying Man for Love of thee!
Thou living Image
Image of Lewti in my mind, 60
Methinks thou lookest not kin unkind!

FOOTNOTES:

[1049:1] The first ten lines of MS. version (1) were first published in Note 44 of P. W., 1893, p. 518, and the MS. as a whole is included in Coleridge's Poems, A Facsimile Reproduction of The Proofs and MSS., &c., 1899, pp. 132-4. MSS. (2) and (3) are now printed for the first time.