Licked through those loud green sheaves of copse,

Bent hyphens 'twixt the mountain-tops,

Mosques of my motley choirs.

"And I, who gave them bed and bower

For nights enduring but an hour

Mid blaring miles of trumpet-flower,

Leagues of liana-wreath,

I saw the rocks through leaves and lings,

Could blink the fangs and feel the wings,

Thrill with the elemental things