Bright as the glimpses of eternity,
To saints accorded in their mortal hour.
This sonnet was written at Brugès, during the Continental Tour of 1820 (see note p. [291]). It was originally published in a note to one of the "Ecclesiastical Sonnets," beginning
A genial hearth, a hospitable board.—Ed.
VARIANT:
[410] 1827.
Meanwhile between those Poplars, as they wave
Their lofty summits, . . .