"Appear!--obey my lyre's command! 15 Come, like the Graces, hand in hand![519] For ye, though not by birth allied, Are Sisters in the bond of love; Nor shall the tongue of envious pride Presume those interweavings to reprove 20 In you, which that fair progeny of Jove, Learned[520] from the tuneful spheres that glide In endless union, earth and sea above." --I sing[521] in vain;--the pines have hushed their waving: A peerless Youth expectant at my side, 25 Breathless as they, with unabated craving Looks to the earth, and to the vacant air; And, with a wandering eye that seems to chide, Asks of the clouds what occupants they hide:-- But why solicit more than sight could bear, 30 By casting on a moment all we dare? Invoke we those bright Beings one by one; And what was boldly promised, truly shall be done. "Fear not a constraining measure! --Yielding to this gentle spell,[522] 35 Lucida![523] from domes of pleasure, Or from cottage-sprinkled dell, Come to regions solitary, Where the eagle builds her aery, Above the hermit's long-forsaken cell!" 40 --She comes!--behold That Figure, like a ship with snow-white sail![524] Nearer she draws; a breeze uplifts her veil; Upon her coming wait As pure a sunshine and as soft a gale 45 As e'er, on herbage covering earthly mold, Tempted the bird of Juno[525] to unfold His richest splendour--when his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain 50 Of music, audible to him alone.