XXVIII.

By this, the climbing Sun, with rest repair'd,

Look'd through the gold embrasures of the sky,

And ask'd the drowsy world how she had fared;—

The drowsy world shone brighten'd in reply;

And smiling off her fogs, his slanting beam

Spied young Leander in the middle stream.

XXXI.

His face was pallid, but the hectic morn

Had hung a lying crimson on his cheeks,