His thoughts confronted with another face!

XXXI.

Her aspect's like a moon, divinely fair,

But makes the midnight darker that it lies on;

'Tis so beclouded with her coal-black hair

That densely skirts her luminous horizon,

Making her doubly fair, thus darkly set,

As marble lies advantaged upon jet.

XXXII.

She's all too bright, too argent, and too pale,