That held a solemn pæan to the moon.

A few devotional fair clouds were soon

Breath’d o’er the living countenance of Heaven,

And under the great galaxies were driven

Of stars that group’d together, and they went

Like voyagers along the firmament,

And grew to silver in the blessed light

Of the moon alchymist. It was not night,

Not the dark deathly shadow, that falls o’er

The eye-lid like a curse, but far before