With spangled traceries,—most meet for one

That was a warden of the pearly streams;—

And as he stept out of the shadows dun,

His jewels sparkled in the pale moon's gleams,

And shot into the air their pointed beams.

LX.

Quoth he,—"We bear the gold and silver keys

Of bubbling springs and fountains, that below

Course thro' the veiny earth,—which when they freeze

Into hard crysolites, we bid to flow,