The tossing landscape gloom and lighten.

With emerald streak and silver blotch

The white wind paints the purple sea.

Warm in our hollow dune we watch

The honey-orchis nurse the bee.

Gold to the keel the startled boats

Beat in on palpitating sail,

While overhead with many throats

The choral forest hymns the gale.

’Neath forest-boughs the templed air