Its glory to my eye—around this brow,

Stainless as marble, cluster golden curls

Like sunbeams on the bosom of the cloud,

And o'er the radiant azure orbs beneath,

The snowy lids suspend their glossy fringe.

Upon such beauty shall my pencil stamp

Its immortality, and make it seem

More beautiful in Fancy's softest glow;

And, my beloved! when this warm hand that traced

Thy pictured charms is mouldering in the dust,