Mocking, slender, leafy laughter,

Why her finger tips were cold:

“I went down to tease the brook,

With her fishes, there below;

She comes dancing, thou must know,

And the bushes arch above her;

But the seeking sunbeams look,

Dodging, through the wind-blown cover,

Find and kiss her into stars.

Silvery veins entwine and crook