Such exquisite music as this!

How I listen’d, my heart all a-flutter,

Assenting, transported with bliss!

All the house with the dancers is throbbing,

The music seems born of the air:

O, joy of all joy the extremest,

To sit, as I sit, on a stair!

To sit, and to gaze on my darling,

Enraptured in thrilling delight,

As I think, “Never face could be fairer,