I' the steady wind, burned like a spilth of light

Out of the crashing of a million stars.

It were well to compare that brilliant piece of light with the grey water-sunset at Ferrara in the beginning of Book VI.

While eve slow sank

Down the near terrace to the farther bank,

And only one spot left from out the night

Glimmered upon the river opposite—

breadth of watery heaven like a bay,

A sky-like space of water, ray for ray,

And star for star, one richness where they mixed