When Summer sighed o'er dying June?—

To see the Fairy People ride

Beneath the moon.

Wild poppies hedged a hawthorne copse,

Where glow-worms hung dim lamps of gold;

A sudden whisper bowed their tops,

And then, behold!

Between the poppies and the mead

I saw the Fairies riding down:

One fair-faced Fairy in the lead