Ran through each vein, when first the Naiad’s rill

Met her with melody—sweet sounds and low:

We hear them yet, they live along its flow—

Her voice is music lost! The fountain-side

She gain’d—the wave flash’d forth—’twas darkly dyed

Even as from warrior-hearts; and on its edge,

Amidst the fern, and flowers, and moss-tufts deep,

There lay, as lull’d by stream and rustling sedge,

A youth, a graceful youth. “Oh! dost thou sleep?

Azzo!” she cried, “my Azzo! is this rest?”