Whose blissful cadences the enwrapt ear

Of wondering mortals caught with silent joy,

Had conjured up in wild and weird-like spell,

No face that ever was so fair and bright.

One look she gave the painter as he gazed,

That made to him a desert of the world—

A look so full of passion and of love,

It turned the memory of the past a blank,

And in the future left him naught but her.

His soul was all afire, and his brain