II

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II

No leaf doth tremble, no ripple is there

On the river,⁠—all’s still, and the night’s sleepy eye

Closes up, and forgets all its Lethean care,

Charm’d to death by the drone of the humming May-fly;

And the Moon, whether prudish or complaisant,

Has fled to her bower, well knowing I want

No light in the dusk, no torch in the gloom,

But my Isabel’s eyes, and her lips pulp’d with bloom.