II.

Thine eyelids slept so beauteously, I deem'd

No eyes could wake so beautiful as they:

Thy rosy cheeks in such still slumbers lay,

I loved their peacefulness, nor ever dream'd

Of dimples:—for those parted lips so seem'd,

I never thought a smile could sweetlier play,

Nor that so graceful life could chase away

Thy graceful death,—till those blue eyes upbeam'd.

Now slumber lies in dimpled eddies drown'd