I HAVE found a place of loneliness      Lonelier than Lyonesse
     Lovelier than Paradise;
 
     Full of sweet stillness
     That no noise can transgress¹
     Never a lamp distress².
 
     The full moon sank in state.
     I saw her stand and wait
     For her watchers to shut the gate.
 
     Then I found myself in a wonderland
     All of shadow and of bland³
     Silence hard to understand.
 
     I waited therefore; then I knew
     The presence of the flowers that grew
     Noiseless, their wonder noiseless blew.
 
     And flashing kingfishers that flew
     In sightless beauty, and the few
     Shadows the passing wild-beast threw.
 
     And Eve approaching over the ground
     ............