That I stood among the flowers,

And, in language unlike ours,

Heard them speaking of the Pixies,

Trolls and Gnomes and Water-Nixes;

How in this flow'r's ear a Fay

Hung a gem of rainy ray;

And round that flow'r's throat had set,

Dim, a dewdrop carcanet;

Then among the mignonette

Stretched a cobweb-hammock wet,