VIII.

Ye are from dingle and fresh glade, ye flowers!

By some kind hand to cheer my dungeon sent;

O’er you the oak shed down the summer showers,

And the lark’s nest was where your bright cups bent,

Quivering to breeze and raindrop, like the sheen

Of twilight stars. On you heaven’s eye hath been,

Through the leaves pouring its dark sultry blue

Into your glowing hearts; the bee to you

Hath murmur’d, and the rill. My soul grows faint