Snatching the light upon their purple skins;

Then under the broad leaves made slow retire:

One like a golden galley bravely wins

Its radiant course,—another glows like fire,—

Making that wayward man our pranks admire."

LXXIV.

"And so he banish'd thought, and quite forgot

All contemplation of that wretched face;

And so we wiled him from that lonely spot

Along the river's brink; till, by heaven's grace,