p Tambourine.

f etc.

]

I’d sooner be a pagan in this hut,

Wherein the singing spheres creep thro’ my door,

And dance and dance upon my bedroom floor,

As ’tween the sheets I watch with eyes unshut,

And on my bed-rail, wailing o’er the din,

A gnat plays on its tiny violin!

I’m wrapt in some fine madness of a sense