To one subdued, subduing glow;

Above our squabbling business hours,

Like Phidian Jove’s, his beauty lowers,

His nature satirizes ours;

A form and front of Attic grace,

He shames the higgling market-place,

And dwarfs our more mechanic powers.

What throbbing verse can fitly render

That face so pure, so trembling-tender?

Sensation glimmers through its rest,