Wheel in the soft air lazily blown;

Or leaning on the shady rail,

Beneath the poplars, silver pale,

Eyed in the shallow amber pools

The black perch voyaging in schools;

Or heard the fisherman outpour

His strange and questionable lore,

While the cream-blossomed basswood-trees

Boomed like an organ with the bees;

Or by blind fancy held aloof