IX.

The golden lamp here sheds its pearly light,

Within the cedar'd panels, dusky pale;

No mirror'd walls the wandering glance invite,

No gauzy curtains drop the misty veil.

And there the vista leads of lessening doors,

And there the summer sunset's golden gleam

Along the line of darkling portrait pours,

And warms the polish'd oak or ponderous beam.

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