The most unlovely things with loveliness.

The maiden, fascinated by this spell,

Sees every thing as she would have it be:

Her squalid cot becomes a princely home;

Its stunted shrubs are groves of stately elms;

The weedy brook that trickles past her door

Is a broad river fringed with drooping trees;

And of all marvels the most marvelous,

The coarse unholy man who rules her love

Is a bright being—pure as we are pure;