Ah, the slippery sylvan dark!

Never after shall he mark

Noisy ploughmen drinking, drinking,

On his drownèd cheek down-sinking;

Quit of serving is that wild,

Absent, and bewitchèd child,

Unto action, age, and danger,

Thrice a thousand years a stranger.

Fathoms low, the naiads sing

In a birthday welcoming;