The Naiad smiled in glad repose,

While twilight’s blush with hue of rose

Glowed tremblingly upon her breast.

The Cupids, bound while day-beams crown

The gazing sky, are loosed and rove

With bow and arrows up and down

Upon the moon-beams in the grove,—

The darksome green triumphal gate

Which spring had entered through of late.

From dripping oaks the nightingale