Where, tossing white its plume of foam,

The fountain leaps and twinkles by,

Embodying dawn and all its bloom,

My Oriana draweth nigh,

Sweet as the heath-bell's wild perfume.

The mountain tarn is like a cloud

Of fallen and reflecting blue;

In azure deeps the larks are loud,

The larks that soar through dawn and dew.

A wild-swan, mirrored in the mere,