Four summer weeks I dwelt in sight of thee:

I saw thee every day; and all the while

Thy form was sleeping on a glassy sea.

So pure the sky, so quiet was the air! 5

So like, so very like, was day to day!

Whene’er I looked, thy image still was there;

It trembled, but it never passed away.

How perfect was the calm! It seemed no sleep,

No mood, which season takes away, or brings: 10

I could have fancied that the mighty Deep