The brilliant moon and all the milky2 sky,
And all that famous harmony of leaves,
Had blotted3 out mans image and his cry.
A girl arose that had red mournful lips
And seemed the greatness of the world in tears,
Doomed4 like Odysseus and the labouring ships
And proud as Priam murdered with his peers;
Arose, and on the instant clamorous5 eaves,
A climbing moon upon an empty sky,
And all that lamentation6 of the leaves,
Could but compose mans image and his cry.