What four-formed godhead came, With graceful stole and beamy diadem, Forth from thy verdant stem."

* With thunder and fire, leading his starry hosts through the waste wilderness, he promulgates his ten commands, glancing his beamy eyelids over the deep in dark dismay.

From him who, reckless of his fame and pride, Thus idly slept, and thus ignobly died,'" Girding his loins he gathered from the field, His quivered stores, his beamy sword and shield, Harness and saddle-gear were o'er him slung.

Thrown from thy lap, Profuse o'er nature, falls the lucid shower Of beamy fruits; and, in a radiant stream, Into the stores of sterile Winter pours.

Far distant images draw nigh, Called forth by wondrous potency Of beamy radiance, that imbues Whate'er it strikes with gem-like hues.

Not an iron rod can lie In circle of thy beamy eye, But thy look doth change it so That it cannot choose but show Thou, the worker, hast been there; Yea, sometimes, on substance rare, Thou dost leave thy ghostly mark In what men do call the dark.

Unharboured now the royal stag forsakes His wonted lair; he shakes his dappled sides, And tosses high his beamy head, the copse Beneath his antlers bends.

What four-form'd godhead came, With graceful stole and beamy diadem, Forth from thy verdant stem? Full-gifted Brahma!

o'er the Moon's pale ice-reflected light; High o'er the pearly Star, whose beamy horn.

Five Sister-nymphs with dewy fingers twine The beamy flax, and stretch the fibre-line; Quick eddying threads from rapid spindles reel, 80 Or whirl with beaten foot the dizzy wheel.

O'er the grey matted moss, and pansied sod, With step sublime the glowing Goddess trod, Gilt with her beamy eye the conscious shade, And with her smile celestial bless'd the maid.

Emerged from ocean springs the vaporous air, Bathes her light limbs, uncurls her amber hair, Incrusts her beamy form with films saline, And Beauty blazes through the crystal shrine.

Admiring Evening stays her beamy star, And still Night listens from his ebon ear; While on white wings descending Houries throng, 320 And drink the floods of odour and of song.

And one beamy smile from you Would float like light between My toils and me, my own, my true, My dark Rosaleen!

The clouds that blush, and die a beamy death, Or weep themselves away in rain,the streams That flow along in dying music,leaves That fade, and drop into the frosty arms Of Winter, there to mingle with dead flowers, Are all prophetic of our own decay.

"Now from the full-grown day a beamy shower Gleams on the lake, and gilds each glossy flower, Gay insects sparkle in the genial blaze, Various as light, and countless as its rays Now, from yon range of rocks, strong rays rebound, Doubling the day on flowery plains around.

But most their looks on the black monarch bend, His rising muscles, and his brawn commend; His double-biting axe, and beamy spear, 480 Each asking a gigantic force to rear.

All eloquent, her eyes express'd Her heart to each fine feeling true: For in their orbs did pity rest, Suffusing soft their beamy blue.

The Sun now rowling down the Western Way, A Blaze of Fires renews the fading Day; Unnumbered Barks the Regal Barge infold, Brightening the Twilight with its beamy Gold; Less thick the finny Shoals, a countless Fry, Before the Whale or kingly Dolphin fly.

Till morning dawn and Lucifer withdraw His beamy chariot, let not the loud bell Call forth thy negroes from their rushy couch: And ere the sun with mid-day fervor glow, When every broom-bush opes her yellow flower, Let thy black laborers from their toil desist:

Dark night, the time for magic, is gone by, And what is yet to come, or good or ill, Must happen in the beamy light of day.