And on it poised a swiftly changing form,

With filmy mantle falling musical,

And colors of the floating bubble’s ball,

Fair and elusive as the sprites that play,

Bright children of the sun-illumined spray,

’Mid rainbows of a mountain waterfall.

Then mingling with the falling waters came

In whispers sibilant Winona’s name;

So indistinct and low that voice intense,

That she, half frightened, cowering in the grass