And brambles clambered flowering.

Then, suddenly, a low, sweet sound

Rose, faintly quivering on the breeze,

And all that blossom-studded ground

Seemed charged with murmurous mysteries!

As if all rarest forest keys

In dreamful chords divinely blent,

Sang forth from some sweet instrument;

While pulsing through, with rhythmic beat,

In slumberous melodies there went