And incense, such as riseth after showers

Upon deep gardens, hiding in their bowers

The inmost heart of sweetness.

Still my way

Drew on, between high-window’d walls and old,

That to the street an ancient story told,

With solemn mien unto Life’s changing day,

In restless ebb and flow, as sea-waves play

About the feet of lonely cliff’s; tho’ now

Even these I pass’d, as fleeting things and vain,