“O nymph reserved, while now the bright-haired sun

Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts,

With brede ethereal wove,

O’erhang his wavy bed:

“Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat

With short, shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wing;

Or where the beetle winds

His small but sullen horn,

“As oft he rises ’midst the twilight path,

Against the pilgrim borne in needless hum