The banquet-board is spread in bounteous style

The banquet-board is spread in bounteous style, And every face around it bears a smile; With fruit and flowers the hall is well perfumed; The bridal-cake’s dealt out; the goblet’s toomed, And all is harmony: joy’s dominant: Within, the very walls seem resonant— As with the echoings of gay scenes of yore, But none had ever equall’d this before. From noon, until the solemn midnight-hour, Heaven vouchsafed one unabated show’r Of mirthfulness, of prudent revelry, Of one enchanting scene of gaiety; Such as will be historical.