TO FANCY.

Light and gay

Flight away

Over the rolling sea,

Night and day

Bright my fay

Bringing sweet music to me.

Deep in the sea

Leap with glee

Braiding the mermaiden’s hair;

Leap the sea,

Sweep to me,

Bearing her kisses rare.

O my fay,

Row away

Out in a nautilus shell,

Glowingly,

Flowingly,

Its rhythmical story to tell.

Greet the morn

Fleetly borne

Over the foam of the sea,

Meet the morn,

Sweet return

Bringing its beauties to me.

Lie and dream

By the beam

Thrown from the rolling moon,

Lie and dream

Night its gleam

Asleep in some deep lagoon.

Far enskyed

Star-like ride

Down in the doming deep,

Where the wide

Bar and tide

Croon to the moon asleep.