His glow-worm garb glints goblin-wise;

And elfishly, and impishly,

Above the gleam of owlet eyes,

A death's-head cap of downy dyes

Nods out at me, and beckons me.

II

Now in the reeds his face looks white

As witch-down on a witches' night;

Now through the dark, old, haunted mill,

All eerily, all flickeringly