“Hie over! hie over! you man of the ferry—the ferry!”
By the still water’s side she was heard far and wide—she replied,
And she mocked in her voice sweet and merry, “You man of the ferry,
You man of—you man of the ferry!”
“Hie over!” he shouted. The ferryman came at his calling;
Across the clear reed-bordered river he ferried us fast.
Such a chase! Hand in hand, foot to foot, we ran on; it surpassed
All measure her doubling—so close, then so far away falling,
Then gone, and no more. Oh! to see her but once unaware,
And the mouth that had mocked, but we might not (yet sure she was there),