On the baptismal font; his pallid face

Upturned, as if his mind were rapt, or lost

In some abstraction; gracefully he stood,

The semblance bearing of a sculptured form

That leans upon a monumental urn

In peace, from morn to night, from year to year.

Him from that posture did the Sexton rouse;

Who entered, humming carelessly a tune,[GJ]

Continuation haply of the notes

That had beguiled the work from which he came,