...their gifts.' Ay me ! ay me ! with what another heart Used I to watch — if I be he that watched — The lucid outline forming round thee ; saw The dim...slowly crimson'd all Thy presence and thy portals, while I lay, Mouth, forehead, eyelids, growing dewy-warm With kisses balmier than half-opening buds...

...watch'd — The lucid outline forming round thee, saw The dim curls kindle into sunny rings, Changed with thy mystic change, and felt my blood Glow with...slowly crimson'd all Thy presence and thy portals, while I lay, Mouth, forehead, eyelids, growing dewy-warm With kisses balmier than half-opening buds...

...wateh'd — The lucid outline forming round thee, saw The dim curls kindle into sunny rings, Changed with thy mystic change, and felt my blood Glow with...slowly crimson'd all Thy presence and thy portals, while I lay, Mouth, forehead, eyelids, growing dewy-warm With kisses balmier than half-opened buds...

...watch'd — The lucid outline forming round thee, saw The dim curls kindle into sunny rings, Changed with thy mystic change, and felt my blood Glow with...slowly crimson'd all Thy presence and thy portals, while I lay, Mouth, forehead, eyelids, growing dewy-warm With kisses balmier than half-opening buds...

...watch'd— The lucid outline forming round thee, saw The dim curls kindle into sunny rings, Changed with thy mystic change, and felt my blood Glow with...slowly crimson'd all Thy presence and thy portals, while I lay, Mouth, forehead, eyelids, growing dewy-warm With kisses balmier than half-opening buds...

...watch'd — The lucid outline forming round theo ; saw The dim curls kindle into sunny rings ; Changed with thy mystic change, and felt my blood Glow with...slowly crimson'd all Thy presence and thy portals." And the concluding words, in which the hapless Tithonus renews his prayer for death, thrill us by their...

...watch'd — The lucid outline forming round thee ; saw The dim curls kindle into sunny rings; Changed with thy mystic change, and felt my blood Glow with...slowly crimson'd all Thy presence and thy portals, while I lay, Mouth, forehead, eyelids, growing dewy-warm With kisses balmier than half-opening buds...

...watch' d — The lucid outline forming round thee ; saw The dim curls kindle into sunny rings ; Changed with thy mystic change, and felt my blood Glow with...slowly crimson'd all Thy presence and thy portals, while I lay, Mouth, forehead, eyelids, growing dewy-warm With kisses balmier than half-opening buds...

...watcii'd — The lucid outline forming round thee ; saw The dim cnrls kindle into sunny rings ; Changed with, thy mystic change, and felt my blood Glow with the glow that slowly crlmson'd all Thy prestnce and thy portals.'1 And the concluding words, in which the hapless Tithonns...

...watch'd — The lucid outline forming round thee ; saw The di'm curls kindle into sunny rings ; Changed with thy mystic change, and felt my blood Glow with the glow that slowly crimsou'd all Thy presence and thy portals, while I lay, Mouth, forehead, eyelids, growing dewy-warm...