• Now the frosty stars are gone:
    I have watched them one by one,
    Fading on the shores of Dawn.
    Round and full the glorious sun
    Walks with level step the spray,
    Through this vestibule of Day,
    While the wolves that late did howl
    Slink to dens and converts foul,
    Guarded by the demon owl,
    Who, last night, with mocking croon,...