And over all, at slender flight or rest,

The dragon-flies, like coruscating rays

Of lapis-lazuli and chrysoprase,

Drowsily sparkle through the summer days:

And, dewlap-deep, here from the noontide heat

The bell-hung cattle find a cool retreat;

And through the willows girdling the hill,

Now far, now near, borne as the soft winds will,

Comes the low rushing of the water-mill.

Ah, lovely to me from a little child,