Her love and nursed it—as the tender drops
Clasp the warm sunbeams, while the smile of Heaven
Breaks in the rainbow. Such is genuine love.
He in his form more radiantly shone
Than that sublime achievement of fine art,
That shows the power of luminous Truth to kill
Sinuous Error;—she, than Guido’s gem
More beautiful, more human, and more true.
I saw, and lo! two dromedaries, each
Bearing a golden basket, one of bread,