As in a clear and liquid night
The star of Love precedes the day,
So lustrous shines its golden light,
It paints the Heavens with diamond ray!
And, following in her starry train,
The lesser lights that rule the sky
To her resign the azure plain,
And all in twinkling homage vie;
And from the planet's humid hair--
Its humid hair of silvery beams--
A dewy freshness fills the air,
and bathes the flowers and gilds the streams!
Thus she o'er all obtains the prize,
For Love beside her ever seems,
And makes all loveliest things grow dull beside her eyes.
He who has seen Aurora rise,
With roses and with hyacinth crowned,
Ere Phoebus gilds the eastern skies,
Or paints the dewy landscape round,
Has marked how dazzlingly and bright
Each moment grows the orient blue,
When melts the stream of crimson light
Into a sea of scarlet hue!
The early shepherd, wondering, views
The golden morn's exhaustless mines
O'er all the world their wealth diffuse,
And looks the more the more it shines.
Such charms her angel face displays,
If thou couldst trace the living lines,
Or mortal eye could on such beauty gaze!
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