XLI + 

How oft, when on a summer night + 

Transparent o’er the Neva beamed + 

The firmament in mellow light, + 

And when the watery mirror gleamed + 

No more with pale Diana’s rays, + 

We called to mind our youthful days⁠— + 

The days of love and of romance! + 

Then would we muse as in a trance, + 

Impressionable for an hour, + 

And breathe the balmy breath of night; + 

And like the prisoner’s our delight + 

Who for the greenwood quits his tower, + 

As on the rapid wings of thought + 

The early days of life we sought. + 