For, fast as the waters beneath me flowing,

Beyond recall, I'm going! I'm going!"

I turned my eye, and beheld another,

That seemed as she might be Summer's mother.

She looked more grave; while her cheek was tinged

With a deeper brown; and her bark was fringed

With the tasselled heads of the wheaten sheaves

Along its sides; and the yellow leaves,

That had covered the deck concealed a throng

Of