He roamed, unresting, till the copper sun

Sank in a steel-grey sea, and earth and sky

Were strewn with shadows--wavering and dim--

To weave a pathway for the dawning moon,

That she, from night's oblivion, might create

With the cold spell of her enchantments old

A phantom earth with magical, bright seas,

A vaster heaven of unrevealed stars.

Unmoving, on a headland of swart crag

That jutted gaunt and sharp against the night,