The candles alight in the room / For my parting meal / Made all things withoutdoors loom / Strange, ghostly, unreal.

I got to go study.

Most of this bench is covered with tiles of Moorish design, but on the front each is stamped with an armillary sphere in which the axis is yellow, the lines of the equator and tropics green, and the rest blue. These one would certainly take to be of Dom Manoel's time, for the armillary sphere was his emblem, but they are said to be older.

The agent noun cutter means a person who cuts, or a thing that is made to or is able to cut something.