My thoughts arise and fade in solitude.
The verse that would invest them melts away
Like moonlight in the heaven of spreading day:
How beautiful they were, how firm they stood,
Flecking the starry sky like woven pearl!
What is compared in this verse?
O 1. the starry sky and moonlight
2. thoughts and solitude
3. thoughts and woven pearls
4. moonlight and the day