Bearing the brent of sunlight and of shade,

Over the marble of some colonnade.

The ladye, she hath lost the pearly hue

Upon her gorgeous brow, where tresses grew

Luxuriantly as thoughts of tenderness,

That once were floating in the pure recess

Of her bright soul. These are not as they were;

But are as weeds above a sepulchre,

Wild waving in the breeze: her eyes are now

Sunk deeply under the discolor’d brow,