• Athwart the sky a lowly sigh
      From west to east the sweet wind carried;
    The sun stood still on Primrose Hill;
      His light in all the city tarried:
    The clouds on viewless columns bloomed
    Like smouldering lilies unconsumed.

    “O sweetheart, see! how shadowy,
      Of some occult magician’s rearing,
    Or swung in space of heaven’s grace...