That shoot from many a stately mosque.

The voice of bird and tinkling water

Sounds cheerly in the cloudless morn,

That comes to thee, its radiant daughter,

Across the glittering Golden Horn;

And like the wave, whose flood of brightness

Is seen alone by eyes on shore,

Thy sunlit being moves in lightness

Nor knows the beauty all adore.

Thou hast no world beyond the chamber