Through the long bright hours of the summer day;

They find the red cup-moss where they climb,

And they chase the bee o’er the scented thyme,

And the rocks where the heath-flower blooms they know—

Lady, kind lady! oh, let me go!”

“Content thee, boy! in my bower to dwell—

Here are sweet sounds which thou lovest well;

Flutes on the air in the stilly noon,

Harps which the wandering breezes tune,

And the silvery wood-note of many a bird