• The Spacious Noon enfolds me with its peace—
      The affluent Midsummer wraps me round—
      So still the earth and air, that scarce a sound
    Affronts the silence, and the swift caprice
    Of one stray bird’s lone call does but increase
      The sense of some compelling hush profound,
      Some spell by which the whole vast world is bound,
    Till star-...