Her brow hath opened on me--see it there, Brightening the umbrage of her hair; So gleams the crescent moon, that loves To be descried through shady groves. 190 Tenderest bloom is on her cheek; Wish not for a richer streak; Nor dread the depth of meditative eye; But let thy love, upon that azure field Of thoughtfulness and beauty, yield 195 Its homage offered up in purity. What would'st thou more? In sunny glade, Or under leaves of thickest shade, Was such a stillness e'er diffused Since earth grew calm while angels mused? 200 Softly she treads, as if her foot were loth To crush the mountain dew-drops--soon to melt On the flower's breast; as if she felt That flowers themselves, whate'er their hue, With all their fragrance, all their glistening, 205 Call to the heart for inward listening-- And though for bridal wreaths and tokens true Welcomed wisely; though a growth Which the careless shepherd sleeps on, As fitly spring from turf the mourner weeps on-- And without wrong are cropped the marble tomb to strew. 211 The Charm is over;[545] the mute Phantoms gone, Nor will return--but droop not, favoured Youth; The apparition that before thee shone Obeyed a summons covetous of truth. 215 From these wild rocks thy footsteps I will guide To bowers in which thy fortune may be tried, And one of the bright Three become thy happy Bride. The Triad was first published in _The Keepsake_, in 1829, and next in the 1832 edition of the Poems. See the criticism passed upon it by one of the three described, viz., Sara Coleridge, in her _Memoirs_, vol. ii. pp. 409-10. Of this poem Mr. Aubrey de Vere writes, "perhaps the most _accomplished_ of Wordsworth's works, and the most unlike his earlier manner."--ED. FOOTNOTES: [517] This poem is called _The Promise_, in a letter written upon its publication in _The Keepsake_.--ED. [518] The Phrygian Ida was a many-branched range of mountains; two subordinate ranges, parting from the principal summit, enclosed Troy as with a crescent. The Cretan Ida terminated in three snowy peaks. There may be a reference to Skiddaw's triple summit in the "British hill."--ED. [519] The Charites--Aglaia, Thalia, and Euphrosyne--were usually represented with hands joined, as a token of graciousness and friendship.--ED. [520] 1836. And not the boldest tongue of envious pride In you those interweavings could reprove Which They, the progeny of Jove, Learnt ... 1829. [521] 1836. --I speak ... 1829. [522] 1836. ... this constraining measure! Drawn by a poetic spell, 1829. [523] Edith Southey.--ED. [524] 1845. ... with silver sail! 1832. [525] The peacock.--ED. [526] 1845.