On a mountain’s lonesome glade,

’Neath a hut he sought repose—

Near where ’mid the lime-tree’s shade,

The convent pinnacles arose;

There, from morning’s dawn first bright’ning

Till the ev’ning stars began,

Secret hopes his anguish light’ning,

Sate the solitary man.

On the cloister fixed his eye,

Thro’ the hours’ weary round,