Beauty

I saw the face of beauty fixed Upon the rising sun Beyond all mortal compliment Her loveliness there shone Within the constellations set Against the heav`nly realm She glittered `cross the universe My heart to overwhelm The Seven Sisters ne`er could light The heavens like her smile Nor Aphrodite`s sweetest face The spirit to beguile Then here beneath the starry dome She rests upon the land Encaptured by the glist`ning streams And meadows, broadly spanned For lying thus in fields of green With flowers in her hair The benediction of her charms Is full beyond compare She dances like a pearly wraith Upon the crested waves So comely bound in all that which Imagination craves Her voice is likened to the song The Mousai sing at dawn Whilst sunlight does her aspect grace In fields of golden corn May beauty steal my eyes away From all in darkness veiled And grant to me her precious gift `Gainst which all else is paled O beauty shall you hearken thus My joy forever be For beauty dwells within the soul As beauty is to me