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,