1. ۱_Once_ it smiled a silent dell
2. ۲Where the people did not dwell;
3. ۳They had gone unto the wars,
4. ۴Trusting to the mild-eyed stars,
5. ۵Nightly, from their azure towers,
6. ۶To keep watch above the flowers,
7. ۷In the midst of which all day
8. ۸The red sun-light lazily lay,
9. ۹_Now_ each visitor shall confess
10. ۱۰The sad valley's restlessness.
11. ۱۱Nothing there is motionless--
12. ۱۲Nothing save the airs that brood
13. ۱۳Over the magic solitude.
14. ۱۴Ah, by no wind are stirred those trees
15. ۱۵That palpitate like the chill seas
16. ۱۶Around the misty Hebrides!
17. ۱۷Ah, by no wind those clouds are driven
18. ۱۸That rustle through the unquiet Heaven
19. ۱۹Unceasingly, from morn till even,
20. ۲۰Over the violets there that lie
21. ۲۱In myriad types of the human eye--
22. ۲۲Over the lilies that wave
23. ۲۳And weep above a nameless grave!
24. ۲۴They wave:--from out their fragrant tops
25. ۲۵Eternal dews come down in drops.
26. ۲۶They weep:--from off their delicate stems
27. ۲۷Perennial tears descend in gems.