TO LUCCA GIORDANO[305]
Composed 1846.—Published 1850
One of the “Evening Voluntaries.”—Ed.
Giordano, verily thy Pencil’s skill
Hath here portrayed with Nature’s happiest grace
The fair Endymion couched on Latmos-hill;
And Dian gazing on the Shepherd’s face
In rapture,—yet suspending her embrace, 5
As not unconscious with what power the thrill
Of her most timid touch his sleep would chase,