Bronzed mariners were hers to view,

With brown cheeks, clear or muddy,

Dark shining eyes, and coal-black hair,

Meet heads for painter's study;

But midst their tan there stood one man,

Whose cheek was fair and ruddy;

IV.

His brow was high, a loftier brow

Ne'er shone in song or sonnet,

His hair, a little scant, and when