II

When thy Son lay, pierced by the shaft which flies

      In darkness? where was lorn Urania

      When Adonais died? With veiled eyes,

      Mid listening Echoes, in her Paradise

      She sate, while one, with soft enamoured breath,

      Rekindled all the fading melodies

      With which, like flowers that mock the corse beneath,

He had adorned and hid the coming bulk of death.