Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there

In happier beauty; more pellucid streams,

An ampler ether, a diviner air,

And fields invested with purpureal gleams.

Laodamia.

Yet tears to human suffering are due;

And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown

Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.

Laodamia.

But shapes that come not at an earthly call