In sunny light, like sprinkling gleams of gold

Within a silken tissue. More than all,

Were I an artist, it were needless task

To seek to match the tinting of her cheek,

One moment wan to sickliness, and then

Trying which best became it, the pure snow

Of the white lily, or the delicate blush

Of the pale, perfumed wild-rose. I was blind

To all this touching beauty, and looked not

Upon the outward temple, for my mind