With all the sisterhood of song:

Bright tints by fairy hands were mix’d.

And Witchcraft etch’d the shades betwixt.

Delighted Flora smil’d and drew

The primrose pale, and violet blue.

A Naiad spreads the flake of snow,—[[38]]

White foams the glittering stream below.

“Give me the pallet,” Love demands,

And stretching forth his baby hands

Dip’d with nice touch his keenest shaft