As magic characters come stealing forth
In loveliness before the breath of flame!
His being brightened with a God-like smile,
As, closely blended with each pictured thought,
His image, flashing into glorious life,
Smiled back upon him from the glowing page
So truthfully—then with the soft excess
Of dreamy rapture ’wildered, fainting bowed,
And blessed the sweet love-mirror, silently.
Her soul in beauty, an Æolian lyre,