E’en Winter paus’d that turf to spare;

Nor look’d the fiery Dog-star there.

And once more may Titania come,

With farewell, to her ancient home;

But, for the bee bird’s gaudy plume,[[69]]

Wav’d o’er her neck in quivering bloom,

Funereal spray of dismal hue,

Of cypress, or the baleful yew,

Join’d with the nightshade’s deadly flow’r,

Shall darkly o’er her forehead low’r.