A silver line, that runs from brow to crown

And in the middle parts the braided hair,

Just serves to show how delicate a soil 30

The golden harvest grows in; and those eyes,

Soft and capacious as a cloudless sky

Whose azure depth their colour emulates,

Must needs be conversant with upward looks,

Prayer’s voiceless service; but now, seeking nought 35

And shunning nought, their own peculiar life

Of motion they renounce, and with the head